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Old 03-14-2020, 02:30 PM   #25
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Default Re: [Space] Climate & habitability of tide-locked planets

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2 View Post
I did in fact mean the subsolar point when I said "east pole" and it seems to me the that the place to put the terminator on a tide locked planet would be running through the subsolar point and of course it's opposite.
That’s just bizarre. The subsolar point is the middle of the sunlit hemisphere, and the terminator is the edge of the sunlit hemisphere. The middle of a hemisphere can’t be at its edge.
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