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Originally Posted by YankeeGamer
I don't know if this is scientifically valid--I'm not enough of an expert--but it looks plausible--certainly sufficient for gaming. Here's a well thought out tide-locked world which keeps in mind the fact that orbits are usually not circular.
http://www.worlddreambank.org/L/LIB.HTM |
Well, there are a lot of things about it that I would like to ask the author about. I would have thought that the tides that braked that world's rotation would also have eliminated its obliquity. The eccentricity (0.2) seems rather large (it's equal to Mercury's, with stronger tides), and large enough that I would have expected a 2:1 spin:orbit resonance rather than synchronous rotation. The pattern of winds on Librata has equatorial easterlies, whereas the modelling I have seen shows superrotation (i.e. equatorial westerlies).
It has.