Timeline for Planet Orbiting a Red Dwarf
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 3:35 | vote | accept | Hans | ||
| Dec 28, 2018 at 15:57 | comment | added | Dan | @VilleNiemi Heck, even within our own system, there's so much we're still learning. Though to you last point, I prefer to think of it in an positive light: almost anything could be possible. | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 7:10 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | @Richard You mean like how Mars is bigger than Earth? Seriously it is much more complex than that. As in, it is pretty hard to be provably wrong when deciding your planet size unless you decide to develop and share an absolutely insane amount of useless astronomical data. Just to be clear your thinking is not really wrong, real world star systems are just too complex for it to be a practical issue for most world building. And honestly with a red dwarf star I am not sure if we (as a species) actually know enough to build a fully realistic system with any confidence. | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 6:44 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 6:31 | answer | added | kineticcrusher | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 0:37 | comment | added | Richard | To be in the habitable zone of a red dwarf it would need to be in close orbit. A large rocky planet in such close orbit seems unlikely... It's not impossible (at least I don't think it is) but my understanding is that it is always smaller planets that orbit closest. | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 0:35 | comment | added | Alexander | @Richard "Your planet would be small" - why? | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 0:33 | comment | added | Richard | Your flora would in all likelihood appear dark blue green (cyan). Because the flora would evolve to absorb red light. A red dwarf is a small star. Your planet would be small. It would be much closer to the star than we are. Think Mercury.. it would therefore have a thinner atmosphere.. with a reddish hue. | |
| Dec 28, 2018 at 0:00 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 27, 2018 at 23:55 | history | asked | Hans | CC BY-SA 4.0 |