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Published: 2011-12-08 19:21:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 2014; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 26
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Quick follow up to this map [link] of a non-rotating planet, showing the comparative size with Earth. Also a chance to mess around with GIMPs sphere mapping faculties.Earth Globe taken from wikicommons.
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Cool idea! So how does that work then? How is the people´s culture? Do they have to immigrate again and again to follow the green belt of life? How are the temperatures? How long does the planet need to rotate around the sun?
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Ugh what? The planet is tidally locked, not rotating slowly. Due to libration effects the subsolar point jiggles about a bit but has remained in the same basic area for hundreds of millions of years.
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You don´t get me^^
When the planet does not rotate, it rotates around the sun although. That means,
the sides changce after once cyclus. Just inform yourself about Uranus, it´s the same.
They icy side would became the sunny side after a half year and otherwise.
Or take the moon, the same side always looks to the earth, but it rotates around the earth tho.
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Uranus does rotate, its just it has such axial tilt that its seasons are absurd.
What we are dealing with here is tidal locking -> A tidally locked body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner. Thus like the moon always keeps the same side to the earth, Throl /always/ keeps the same side pointed at its sun.
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