Sander Vesik ) wrote:
: Niko Holm wrote:
: Why dont you base your book an a fictional moon which has a fictional planet
: it orbits on a fictional orbit in a fictional star system? This will make
: you seem like less of a dumbass... like Rand Simberg and Brett Buck
: mentioned, do some drawings, its not hard, and work out a possible way that
: this moon of yours can obey your 'rules' in the book... Its dangerous doing
: a fiction book on a non-fiction stage... you still need to be believable,
: so, like I said, make it ALL fictional...

: uhh... I don't think such a moon can exist at all - well, not such a moon
: which one side always faced the planet, anyways.

Actually our moon is exactly like that WRT the earth. Only one side of our
moon faces the earth. It is in what is called a synchronous rotation. The
earth's gravational force is so strong in comparison to the moon's ability
to rotate that its period of rotation is equal to its orbital period.
Synchronous rotation is not at all rare.

Eric

:
: Best of luck...
:
: Oh and if you want to be precise about our moon, its lunar month is 27.3
: days... but who's counting?
:
: Niko
:

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: Sander

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