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Old January 13th 04, 03:30 PM
Bruce Sterling Woodcock
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Default I'm Writing Fiction about the Moon: Some Basic Questions!


"Mike Rhino" wrote in message
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How about a case where one of the poles points in the direction of the
orbital plane? IOW, at one point in the orbit the north pole points at

the
sun and on the other side of the orbit the south pole points toward the
sun. Unlike the Earth's or Mars' ~25 deg. axis tilt this other is more

on
the order of a 90 deg. axis tilt.


Uranus comes pretty close with an axis tilt of 97.86 degrees.

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/uranus.htm


And Pluto is about 120 degrees, and Venus about 180 degrees.

Bruce