Re: Distant planet judged possibly habitable
- From: Martin Dunne <martindunneremove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:00:09 GMT
Orval Fairbairn wrote:
If it has only a 13-hour transit time, tidal effects have probably slowed down its rotation to one per transit, making one side face its star and the other side always in the dark -- not conducive to the emergence of life.
That's not the case; it's just sufficiently different from our model for the same arguments as precession.
Martin
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