Lovely painting! And I'd be interested in hearing more about your novel. It sounds like my kind of story. It's always fun to meet someone else who sits around mathing planets into existence.
Most moons are tidally locked to the bodies they orbit--so I assume Pandora is locked to its gas giant (Polyphemus, I believe), but not to its suns (1 major sun and a minor one--it's a binary system). Apparently they worked out a complex day/night cycle for Pandora, but I have no idea how accurate it is.
Habitable moons, of gas giants or otherwise, are actually fairly common in science fiction books, but that's one of those things most people don't know about until a big-budget movie comes out, so I'm going to get a bunch of people assuming that's where I got the idea. Nope; I stole from MANY sources for that one! ;)
Yavin IV sounded way cool, especially in the EU books. I loved the description of the light show when the star would be eclipsed by the edge of the gas giant.
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Date: 2011-02-27 09:48 am (UTC)Most moons are tidally locked to the bodies they orbit--so I assume Pandora is locked to its gas giant (Polyphemus, I believe), but not to its suns (1 major sun and a minor one--it's a binary system). Apparently they worked out a complex day/night cycle for Pandora, but I have no idea how accurate it is.
Habitable moons, of gas giants or otherwise, are actually fairly common in science fiction books, but that's one of those things most people don't know about until a big-budget movie comes out, so I'm going to get a bunch of people assuming that's where I got the idea. Nope; I stole from MANY sources for that one! ;)
Yavin IV sounded way cool, especially in the EU books. I loved the description of the light show when the star would be eclipsed by the edge of the gas giant.