Timeline for How long would an eclipse last on an Earth-like moon
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| Oct 25 at 22:36 | comment | added | jdunlop | Oh, I wasn't suggesting the calculation was wrong. More that I'd expect some wild consequences of this orbital arrangement for the occupants of the earth-like moon. | |
| Oct 25 at 22:30 | comment | added | AlexP | @jdunlop: Yes it would. The geometry is either given in the question, or at least implied. | |
| Oct 25 at 22:08 | comment | added | jdunlop | Assuming the host planet's orbit about the sun and the moon's orbit about the host are coplanar, a 13 million km semi-major axis means that the sun->moon distance varies by ~10% every orbit! | |
| Oct 25 at 20:03 | history | answered | AlexP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |