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How could an Earthlike planet have two moons, one similar to the Earth's moon and the other primarily composed of carbon? [closed]
I am building an Earthlike planet that possesses two moons, one similar to the Earth's in terms of chemical composition and one primarily composed of carbon. How could these two moons form? Which moon ...
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What would happen if a Europa-like moon "thawed"? [closed]
I have a planet and moon system orbiting a high mass star, something like a type A main sequence. Everything is only a short two billion years old, but the star is already starting to expand, warming ...
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Various eclipses in a P-type binary star system?
Trying to make a world with a P-type binary star system, with a habitable planet orbiting around them, and one moon orbiting said planet. I am terrible with physics so I've been wondering if any of ...
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What are the odds of a binary solar eclipse?
I'm currently creating my own binary star system which includes a circumbinary planet that has two moons. For simplicity's sake, the stars, planet, and moons are comparable in size to our own Sun, ...
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Is this habitable moon formation scenario plausible?
My and my teams' works take place on a moon orbiting as giant about 3 times the mass of jupiter (possessing also a massive moon system) in a solar system with an F-star and be either the first, third ...
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Is there a way for a permanent Lunar eclipse, or another Object to always be in Earth's shadow?
I have a question regarding worldbuilding and haven't found a question like this yet, so I created an account and hope that someone can answer it :D
As a starting point, imagine our real-life Sun, ...
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Damarian's Parameters: What are they?
For Damarian, I have its system starting to be worked out, and I even have the basics of Checuti and how Damarian orbits around its mother planet. (Link to my first question about this system is ...
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How long should a Life-Harboring Mega-Moon's orbit around its Mother Planet be?
Damarian, the world I'm building, is the largest moon of its gas giant planet, Checuti. Damarian's diameter is 19,113 km, but its gravity is nearly the same as Earth's (It' largely made out of a ...
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What is the minimum size of an habitable planet to have two moons?
For the sake of the question, let's define a moon as a natural satellite at least half the size of our Moon. It needs to be spherical like our Moon, not like Phobos and Deimos on Mars. The imaginary ...
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Could a planet with many moons see a different moon each night?
This is just an idea I have been toying with.
Taking Earth as an example with 7 days in a week, my idea would that there would be 7 moons in orbit around the planet. They would not necessarily share ...
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The Earth and Moon resolidify under a bluer star, their outer layers evaporated and burned away. What do they look like now?
(This is the third in a series of questions, starting with Moved into further orbits to protect them, how much damage do Earth and Moon take when the Sun expands? and How soon does the Earth's ...
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Moved into further orbits to protect them, how much damage do Earth and Moon take when the Sun expands?
Short version A far future catastrophe burns/melts away large chunks of the Earth and Moon. For reasons related to my story's fantasy elements, the remains of the Moon have about one fifth their ...
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The major effects on the habitability of exomoons orbiting this Brown Dwarf
I'll need to give some background to this question. I'm interested in the idea of a densely inhabited star system, and having large exomoons is one way that they can all orbit roughly at the same part ...
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How can an Earth-like moon meet these angular diameter conditions?
NOTE: If there is anything about this question that needs clarification or editing, please don't hesitate to let me know in the comments.
Get ready, because you're in for quite a ride.
I have tried ...
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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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What factors affect how many moons a planet can have?
A moon is just a natural satellite - something orbiting a planet - so I'm interested in what kind of factors influence how many moons a planet can have, and how many moons a planet will actually have. ...
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