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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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[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 HA

Technically 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.
The seasons would be a sticking point, technically they would occur but I doubt that they would be noticable due to the constant changing of distances.

All in all, a very neat concept. The only problem is that the chances of it occuring are... very small... due to the huge range of factors. But take hope! In an infinite universe, anything that is possible HAS TO exist!

(Also, Solar Ecclipses would probably be a little more impressive, but I doubt it would be hugely slow, unless you have an orbital time slower than that of the moon, it would have to be quite slow, because think of how long a solar ecclispe lasts here, ie 15 mins)

[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