In a message dated 2/24/04 2:23:32 PM Mountain Standard Time, juuso@iki.fi writes: >Celandra has a Sol-like G-type star and an Earth-like length of day and >year. >Unlike Earth, Celandra has 2 moons: the Greater Moon, with size and >other properties much like Earth's moon, and the Lesser Moon, which >is smaller, and further away. The Lesser Moon has >visible size approximately one tenth of the size of the Greater Moon. How about giving the lesser moon a highly eccentric orbit so that last sentence would read: The Lesser Moon is highly eccentric and varies in visible size from about 20% to 3% of the diameter of the Greater Moon. If I get some time I'll start plugging some numbers and report on what I come up with. Jefferson (Exquaestio) http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
