Giving Celandra two moons is a tempting idea, and rather traditional in fantasy settings, to boot, but what would the consequences of two moons be? With two moons, Celandra's tides would be complex and more difficult to predict. The size of each moon and the distance from Celandra would affect tides, as well as the development of calendars. We have a hard time reconciling lunar and solar time here on Earth, with one moon; how hard would it be with two? And would the moons be tidally locked to Earth or not? On a different note, some scientists postulate that a single large moon is a neccessary requirement for a planet to develop complex life. This is, of course, untestable at the moment. Of course, before talking about Sun, moons, and planets, we should answer the question of whether Celandra's cosmology is Ptolemaic/geocentric or Copernican/heliocentric. It makes a considerable difference. Andrew --- RulingNations@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/16/04 2:14:34 PM Mountain Standard Time, > juuso@iki.fi > writes: > > RulingNations@aol.com wrote: > > > > >Has anything been developed about Celandra's astronomy? How many > moons, > > >other planets, significant constellations, etc.? > > > > > No, as far as I know. > > OK. I guess we can assume a G-type star and a standard length day > and year. > > How about giving the planet two moons though? A "greater moon" and a > "lesser > moon." > > Jefferson (Exquaestio) > http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
