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How would tectonics behave on a two continent planet?

I am working on constructing a world which is basically (from the northern pole to the southern pole): smallish frozen over ocean huge land mass encompassing the northern hemisphere tremendous ocean ...
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Effect of two moons on wildlife

So given an inconceivably Earth-like planet with two moons in slightly differing orbits, how would the changed tidal system affect the wildlife? Specifically, What general type of marine wildlife ...
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What would a pair of Death Stars do to Earth?

Y'all should know by now that I want to build a Death Star ;-) Let's assume that we did that already -- and against the odds, we've built two of them, and they're currently in orbit around a planet; ...
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What would tides look like on a planet with two similarly sized and oppositely places moons?

I’m making a mostly ice planet with two moons. For the purposes of this question, let’s assume that they are both proportional size and distance to the size and distance to our moon. Both are tidally ...
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Three Moons and Simultaneous Full Moons?

In my story's world, the planet is roughly Earthlike in terms of size but it has three moons. I have written in something called "brightnight", when all three moons are full at the same time ...
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How could a TINY Second Moon minimally affect Earth? [duplicate]

So I found this site through this other question asking generally about what Earth would be like with two moons. However, these responses, like pretty much everything else I've been able to find ...
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Tides on a planet with 5 moons? [duplicate]

What would be the effects on an earth-like planet with 5 moons, one the size of Earth's moon and the others approximately 1/10th its size? How massive would the tides be when they align?
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Short and Long Term affects of another Moon [closed]

What would the Short Term effects be on the earth is another heavenly body, similar in size of our current moon were to suddenly appear in orbit? I would assume large tidal activity, perhaps even ...
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Effects of multiple moons on a planet

Judging by our own planet we know what the effects of a moon on a terrestrial planet are. We also know that if a planet has two moons on the same side you would get insane tides and that two moons on ...
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World with 3 moons [duplicate]

I'm writing a story set in a world with 3 moons and I have a couple of questions about how that would work. I understand that the tidal patterns would be significantly different than Earths and I'm ...
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Planet with two moons and rings? Is it possible?

So, I'm creating a jungle world that orbits a K class star (aka orange dwarf star), and is the second planet in the system. Now, I have the planet having two moons: one that is similar to our moon (...
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What effect would 2 Luna-like moons have on an Earth sized (and ecologically Earth-like) planet? [duplicate]

Assume for the sake of argument that both moons are very similar to ours, in size and composition. Perhaps one is slightly smaller than our moon, while the other is slightly larger. Furthermore, in ...
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How would two moons work on a planet? [duplicate]

I'm planning on making a "new world", in a new planet. This planet would have similar living conditions to the Earth, but two moons (both in the same orbit, so that both can be seen at night), but I ...
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Effects of multiple moons on tides? [duplicate]

Hello I would like to ask what would be the effect of 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 moons on an earthlike planet? What would change? Consider may be a moon like our own and the other two of progressive smaller size? ...
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How would an extra moon affect the tides? [duplicate]

In my world, I'm planning to add a second moon which would be positioned closely to the first. I was wondering what effect would that have on the tides?
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