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Old January 9th 04, 10:02 PM
John Schutkeker
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Default I'm Writing Fiction about the Moon: Some Basic Questions!

"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote in
:

Actually if you had a moon tidal locked to a planet that was tidal
locked to its sun, you could have an interesting situation.


I have a hard time believing that this could occur. The moon couldn't
really be said to "orbit" it's planet, could it? It would really be more
like two nearby bodies co-orbiting their sun, and I'm betting that would be
an unstable configuration.