Timeline for How would a moon in geostationary orbit appear to wax and wane?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 23, 2017 at 22:28 | vote | accept | EveryBitHelps | ||
| Feb 21, 2017 at 10:49 | history | edited | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
It's means "it is"; its is the pronoun.
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| Feb 20, 2017 at 20:21 | answer | added | Mike Scott | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 18:40 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | @Brythan. You edited for ''it's''!!! isn't that a little superficial. I thought we were supposed to limit edits to make posts more readable?...or was it just tickling the worldbuilder OCD in you? :) | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 17:33 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | Wow as much as that! Beats the supermoon any day:) | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 17:30 | comment | added | M i ech | @EveryBitHelps Yes, and those effects will be significant (in astronomic scale). For example: geostationary orbit has radius of ~35700 kilometres, while Earth radius is ~6400 kilometres. Observer at equator, where moon is in zenith is 29300 km away, while observer at pole or at any longitude 90 degrees away from moon-zenith spot would be 36300 km away from moon, and there moon will appear 35% smaller. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 13:50 | answer | added | Paul Smith | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 13:43 | comment | added | Paul Smith | @EveryBitHelps Yes. Text moved to an answer. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 13:27 | answer | added | David Richerby | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 12:44 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | @PaulSmith, wait. So different latitudes see different moon positions and different longitudes will see different phases at the same time for the same moon position???. Observers would also see the moon either a little bigger or smaller depending on their longitude??? | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 12:05 | comment | added | Paul Smith | Yes, the moon would wax and wane in one day. The phase has little to do with the observers location, it is purely how much of the moon that is facing the sun that the observer can see. Two observers at different longitudes would see different phases. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 9:13 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | Once more, Kerbal Space Program provides a useful example. (Duna, KSP's Mars-analogue, has a single huge moon called Ike that it's mutually tide-locked with, somewhat like the real-world Pluto-Charon system.) | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 2:32 | history | edited | Brythan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 20, 2017 at 1:59 | answer | added | Lio Elbammalf | timeline score: 30 | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 0:58 | answer | added | Zxyrra | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 19, 2017 at 23:02 | history | asked | EveryBitHelps | CC BY-SA 3.0 |