Recent content by pcw27

Oh the planet's already made ;) You can actually read a draft here if you want. http://www.sffworld.com/community/story/4334p0.html

Close only Gliese is a super earth. The high gravity would be prohibitive for my characters.

Oh the middle band isn't really "just fine" Its wracked by horrible storms. How long would a year typically be on a planet like this?

In my ignorance i thought the second axis would make the planet more consistently oriented with a single pole always pointed towards the sun. I think the star I chose is a red dwarf but that's immaterial. It needs to be a star hot enough to make one side of the planet way too hot for anything...

So then the planet I'm describing couldn't exist?

The claim was that a tidal lock in conjunction with a rotation perpendicular to the gravity plane would tear the planet apart, not the tidal lock alone. Imagine a top that's fallen over on its side and is now rolling along a table in a circle. That's the planet (and possibly moon) with the star...

What if the moon isn't formed from accretion and is rather more of a large chunk left by the impact? Yes but Uranus isn't tidal locked to the sun. I was told the tidal locking would result in forces that would eventually split the planet in two by constricting the meridian.

So to take it further. Could the debris from the collision leave a moon orbiting on the perpendicular axis?

Fury, Basically the orbit was synchronous and the impacting object caused the planet to rotate on a horizontal axis. I'll just elaborate to say that the story required the planet to always have the same hemisphere pointing towards its star and the other away. I know that's pretty rare as far...

So I'm working on this story. I wont get into too much detail but basically the planet I designed was struck by another protoplanetary object at an angle perpendicular to the rest of its gravity plane, creating a second rotational axis. The result was a planet tidal locked to its star and...