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Is it possible to have a positive rational number of months (more than 1) in a year?
It is possible for a planet to have orbital resonance with a sun (e.g. Mercury has a 3:2 spin resonance with the sun). It is also possible for a moon to have orbital resonance with a planet (e.g. our ...
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Can a solar system exist where the second planet rotates fast, and the third planet is tidally locked to their star?
Today I read about the Romulan home star system and it looks like it might be impossible for such a star system to exist.
Memory Alpha describes Remus:
Remus was tidally locked, with one ...
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