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Q:
In your latest article about brown stars, you said that "brown
dwarfs inhabited the 'undiscovered country' between stars and
planets". So would this mean that they could have satellites of
some sort, or even small planets?
A:
Yes, they could have satellites, planets, or a companion brown
dwarf.