000F04b is a binary planet system composed of two iron-rich rocky bodies, b-1 and b-2. The planets orbit one another with a period of 12 hours.
000F04b orbits their parent star at 0.13 AU with a period of 22.9 days. Average temperatures range from 700 to 800 K due to intense tidal heating.
Observations indicate that the binary's orbits are degrading over time as solar wind and tidal interactions slow the bodies into a death spiral. It is predicted that 000F04b will eventually destabilise in the next 50 million years as both surpass their Roche limits, fragmenting into a larger compound body with a short-lived ring system.
b-1's mass is estimated to be 0.04 M🜨 with a mean radius of 2200km and an average density of 5.4g/cm3. Its average surface gravity is 3.3m/s2. It is tidally locked to its partner, b-2.
b-2's mass is estimated to be 0.05M🜨 with a mean radius of 2500km and an average density of 4.6g/cm3. Its average surface gravity is 3.2m/s2. It is likewise tidally locked to its partner.
000F04b is an unlikely place for mining, but a stable point between the two bodies offers a perfect place for a space station. Orbital mining has proven viable, and the system's proximity to its parent star provides plenty of solar power for the machines of a refinery.
A hardened orbital platform was deployed in ::0640, and has been very successful producing raw iron and other metals for export to intermediate industries. It has been renovated several times over the centuries due to solar proximity, micrometeoroid strikes and age-related wear, but many of its original compartments remain.