Timeline for What would seasons and daylight be like if the Earth was on an eight-shaped orbit between two stars?
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| Nov 23, 2020 at 9:49 | vote | accept | Hankrecords | ||
| Nov 22, 2020 at 18:12 | vote | accept | Hankrecords | ||
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| Nov 19, 2020 at 7:31 | comment | added | jwpfox | How do the suns move in relation to each other? | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 23:50 | comment | added | Hankrecords | @JBH I edited the question, hopefully that makes it clearer and narrows the scope down | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 23:50 | history | edited | Hankrecords | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Hopefully makes it clearer and narrows the scope down
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| Nov 18, 2020 at 23:33 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Can you say what "life on the planet" means? Life here on Earth exists in a temperature range of prolly less than -50 to about 300° C, ignoring other variations like humidity, radiation or detailed chemistry. | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 23:12 | comment | added | Bohemian | I doubt a figure of 8 orbit could be stable. Also, the planet would be cook being hit with sunlight from both sides of much of the orbit. The planet would have to stay at least mars distance from both the stars when between them, probably further. What about an elliptical orbit around both stars, with each star being an approximate focal point of the ellipse? | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 23:01 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 18, 2020 at 20:08 | answer | added | Sherwood Botsford | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 16:43 | comment | added | JBH | Good for you for letting us know you're looking for a suspension-of-disbelief answer. Sometimes it's hard to separate "in real life, that won't work" from "it's your world, it'll work great!" However, asking for biomes is too much and a reason to close (you're basically asking us to invent what life would be like on said planet...). I'd ask for the seasons and simply declare the life you want to be. | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 16:09 | history | edited | Hankrecords | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Edited to have only one main question
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| Nov 18, 2020 at 16:07 | comment | added | Hankrecords | @user535733 I'm interested in making everything believable from a bystander looking at the sky with the naked eye while sitting on the planet's surface. So, as I stated in the question, the only part where I want to get more "technical" is the seasons and climate supposing such a system exists stably. If this isn't clear by reading my question, could you suggest a way of making it more so? Thanks | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 16:01 | answer | added | Ash | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | user535733 | The first line of the linked Physics SE answer is "...the orbits wouldn't be stable" (so no life). Therefore seems like you must be using magic to maintain a stable system. Once you open the door to magic, you can do anything you want with climate and seasons regardless of the physics. | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 15:21 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | Too many questions in one post. Please split them in separate posts. | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 15:00 | history | asked | Hankrecords | CC BY-SA 4.0 |