I'm Writing Fiction about the Moon: Some Basic Questions!

Mary Shafer wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:30:43 GMT, "Bruce Sterling Woodcock"
wrote:



"Mike Rhino" wrote in message
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"Eric Chomko" 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.



I'm confused here. How can you tell it's 120 deg, not 60? Or 180,
not 0? Is the northness of the pole based on rotation direction

Yes.

Alain Fournier