Timeline for Could a habitable tidally locked planet have a day and night cycle caused by the eccentricity of its orbit?
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 12:12 | vote | accept | Noble | ||
| May 22, 2017 at 22:50 | comment | added | Emilio M Bumachar | Nemesis, by Isaac Asimov, (spoiler coming) features a habitable-ish Earth-sized satellite to a gas giant. Despite being tidally locked to the gas giant, it gets cyclic-ish exposure to the star. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 10:53 | answer | added | pablodf76 | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 22, 2017 at 10:36 | answer | added | Lio Elbammalf | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 22, 2017 at 9:26 | comment | added | Fl.pf. | why want to have a tidally locked planet when you want a day-night-cycle? makes no sense | |
| May 22, 2017 at 9:06 | answer | added | Keelhaul | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 22, 2017 at 2:48 | comment | added | Andon | Faster orbits mean closer orbits. Closer orbits mean a much smaller/less energetic star to keep the planet in a habitable range. I'm not sure there's a star that would be small enough for any semi-reasonable day length. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 1:33 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 22, 2017 at 0:45 | history | asked | Noble | CC BY-SA 3.0 |