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To: Captain Rhino

Maybe they have one side always facing their star so it’s only hot on that side. Of course it would be bitterly cold on the dark side, but maybe it’s temperate right on the border between the hot and cold zones—the twilight zone.


29 posted on 12/01/2023 11:26:03 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Based on my extensive education on astronomy (received from YouTube videos), astrophysicists generally theorize that there needs to be an atmosphere before any moderation of temperatures between day side and night side occurs in tidally locked planets. Given how close they are estimated to be to their sun and their estimated temperatures, they probably don’t have atmospheres (being long since stripped away by solar wind from their sun).

In addition, considering how close in their orbits are, the star may be in the process of consuming the planets.

On a completely unrelated matter, I read the Wikipedia biography entry for your username. How did you come to choose this noteworthy Roman general?


31 posted on 12/01/2023 12:55:49 PM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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