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Roughly how big could the tidal range be on a human habitable Earth analogue world?
The Gravitational tidal forces can be supplied by any orbiting moon(s)/twin planet(s) of any mass and any orbital radius, inclination or orbital radius, but the system must be stable for at least 10,...
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How magnitude affects angular diameter/resolution
Let's say you look at two relatively dim stars in the night sky. They are close to each other, but they are far away enough that you can distinguish one from the other. But what if one of them is much ...
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How would temperature extremes from summer to winter vary from ours if an Earth-like planet had an orbital period 4 times that of Earth?
I am imagining a world orbiting an F2 star, temp 7050K, at 2.87 AU, which I believe would be in the habitable zone and give an orbital period 4 times that of Earth. This is soft science fiction, so ...
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Soil Types Sanity Check
I'm in the process of making a strategy game. I am using the FAO soil classification system for handling soils; the soil in a given tile has four characteristics:
production limit (how much food you ...
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Which would be the Koppen-Geiger climate distribution of this map?
The existence of closed seas makes it difficult to me, especially the East one. I have it clear that in the souteast region the climate would be influenced by monzoon, but if the world has only one ...
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Astro-Mechanics: Plausibility check for binary system merge
I have a binary system composed primary about a brown dwarf and a k6.6V star that's the fusion of the system 1 and 2 7.41 billion years ago, I'll tell you the story and I'll ask the question after the ...
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I may have made an error in calculating my spin-orbit resonance
I have a very warm planet named Phoenix I'm worldbuilding that's 1.2 times the mass of Earth, with a density somewhat smaller at 5.2 g/cm^3, orbiting at a distance of 0.1 AU from it's star in 10.2 ...
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Are these ocean currents for my planet plausible?
This is my first attempt at worldbuilding anything at this point. I heavily modelled my first planet after the Earth as my baby steps. I wanted to experiment with how climates on the planet would be ...
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What will be temperature in inland depression deeper than 2 km below sea level (48° southern latitude) and how will temperature gradient work there?
My another question related to already introduced planet Artemis is related to temperature gradient. Whether it will work also in depression deep under sea level and if yes what could be increase of ...
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Wind patterns on a tidally locked planets contradict my logic (looking for correction)
My take on the wind patterns on a tidally locked planet (TDL) does not lead to the information given in papers and videos. Please tell me where I went wrong.
My take:
On a TLP, the sub-solar point is ...
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What would be the size of the outer asteroid belt in this system?
I am following the Artifexia-like system building with the calculator. Per the calculator, my system looks like this:
I am having trouble calculating the inner and outer limits of the second asteroid ...
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How would the polar front move?
I am in the process of working out the climate zones for a custom continent. Two of the defining features are its poleward placement in the Southern Hemisphere and the large mountain range running ...
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Weather patterns on a world with a homogenous distribution of land and ocean?
What would the weather patterns be like on an Earth with a more homogenous distribution of land and ocean?
That is, keep the overall amount of water the same, the ratio of water to land the same (...
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What would it be like on a habitable planet tidally locked to its moon?
Let's assume there's a habitable planet with a moon similar to ours. Unlike the Earth-Moon system, where only the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, both objects are locked to each other.
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Climate of worlds with polar continents and concentrated equatorial continent
In my fiction, there would be two Earth analog planets (one planet and its rival) with opposite land and sea distribution. The sea-to-land ratio on both planets is the same as Earth, 71%. On Planet A, ...
