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[cassiopeia13]

I'm creating a world (no it's not for school) and because I'm a complete astronomy geek, I wanted to create a solar system around said world. I've designed it around our solar system,(since spending countless hours infront of a computer calculating gravity and velosity and all else would really.. my brain would snap) that has a start similar to

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[atrayitic]

No, I don't think a planet like that could exist. The gravitational pull if it were similar to our moon would stop it from spinning (like our moon) resulting in one part of the moon always being the the light and the other always being in the dark. Therefore it would never really have "seasons".
I think life could exsist but not humaniod life.

[jamesihudson]

Sorry it point out, but your horribly wrong, our moon does turn, the thing is it has days about 28 Earth days long. We only SEE one side of our moon, but on a new moon (when the side we see is dark) the other side of the moon has light. Its only CALLED the dark side of the moon because its the side which faces away from us at all times, sometimes it faces toward the sun, sometimes not.
So HATechnically it could be possible for a planet to exist in that way, for example some of the moons of jupiter are suspected of being habitable (in their own way). They are geoogically active (though in some of the cases this is because of the squeezing because of their proximity to Jupiter keeping the cores molten). They have atmospheres, generally nast and cold due to their distance from the sun but its conceivable that a closer moon would have a reasonable breathable atmosphere

[cassiopeia13]

Except for that one last year that lasted 45 minutes! I was reeeeally bummed that I was in the wrong part of the country to see it. Had I been where I am now it wouldda been wickedly brilliant.

>.. I have such bad luck when it comes to cool stuff. MIssed the Aurora's when they came to the states a few years back due to huge solar flares, missed solar eclipses, missed that bloody awesome comet... such bad luck

[jamesihudson]

I have already said my bit, but I would be interested to hear how this project turns out...

[cassiopeia13]

I actually turned it into a solar system with two suns close to one another, but of different temperatures. The planet was within the habitable zone, and tilted. Bout the size of Mars eventhough that's likely the atmosphere would dry up more quickly, I'm ignoring that.

I decided that while a planet COULD possibly sustain life around a larger planet, the way in which I wanted to have my life world would have Too many variables and all that to really sit down and figure out if it's possible.