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Old January 10th 04, 04:17 AM
Henry Spencer
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Default I'm Writing Fiction about the Moon: Some Basic Questions!

In article ,
Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) wrote:
Actually if you had a moon tidal locked to a planet that was tidal locked to
its sun, you could have an interesting situation.


Except that such a situation is impossible. The only way it kind of works
is if the moon somehow ended up in the sun-planet L2 position... which is
unstable.
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