[GURPS Space(/Fantasy??)] Consequences of a Unique Planetary Rotation

LazarusDarkeyes · 06-18-2009, 07:38 PM

Given: Through ANY extra-ordinary means (magical, divine, whatever), a planet rotates so that it has the exact same hemisphere of the planet always facing its sun. The axis of the planet's rotation is exactly perpendicular to the plane of its revolution around the sun. The pleny is otherwise Earth is all other respects (days per revolution, size, mass, distance from sun, 1 satellite orbiting which is the size of the moon, etc.).

Question: What would be the effects of this? Would one side of the planet be a desert, the other side a frozen wasteland, and there might be a ring around the planet which is intermediate and may actualyl be habitable?

Affect on oceans? Polar icecaps? Flora/Fauna? Atmosphere? Other?

06-18-2009, 07:38 PM	#1
LazarusDarkeyes Join Date: Apr 2006	[GURPS Space(/Fantasy??)] Consequences of a Unique Planetary Rotation Given: Through ANY extra-ordinary means (magical, divine, whatever), a planet rotates so that it has the exact same hemisphere of the planet always facing its sun. The axis of the planet's rotation is exactly perpendicular to the plane of its revolution around the sun. The pleny is otherwise Earth is all other respects (days per revolution, size, mass, distance from sun, 1 satellite orbiting which is the size of the moon, etc.). Question: What would be the effects of this? Would one side of the planet be a desert, the other side a frozen wasteland, and there might be a ring around the planet which is intermediate and may actualyl be habitable? Affect on oceans? Polar icecaps? Flora/Fauna? Atmosphere? Other?