2009-08-29

beccastareyes: Image of Sam from LotR. Text: loyal (Default)
2009-08-29 03:22 pm

Moons of Uranus, Earth, and their Mixed-up Lovechild

This post is mostly for [livejournal.com profile] padparadscha who asked to pick my brains about a planet with an 80°+ axial tilt. On the other hand, it means I can write about something that came up at work recently, so I thought I'd combine things.

So, I recommend What if the Moon Didn't Exist: Voyages to Earths that Might Have Been (by Neil Comins), since one of the chapters features a variant-Earth with a tilt like Uranus. On the other hand, I just realized that chapter got one of the details wrong: the status of our moon.

More than You Ever Wanted to Know About the Phase of the Moon )
beccastareyes: Image of Sam from LotR. Text: loyal (geek_at_work)
2009-08-29 03:23 pm

Moons of Uranus, Earth, and their Mixed-up Lovechild

This post is mostly for [insanejournal.com profile] padparadscha who asked to pick my brains about a planet with an 80°+ axial tilt. On the other hand, it means I can write about something that came up at work recently, so I thought I'd combine things.

So, I recommend What if the Moon Didn't Exist: Voyages to Earths that Might Have Been (by Neil Comins), since one of the chapters features a variant-Earth with a tilt like Uranus. On the other hand, I just realized that chapter got one of the details wrong: the status of our moon.

More than You Ever Wanted to Know About the Phase of the Moon )