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Date Posted: 19:25:58 06/08/03 Sun
Author: theButterfly
Subject: hmmm....
In reply to: Crysknife 's message, "A thought....." on 22:33:53 06/07/03 Sat

Dune's orbit is perpendicular? I don't remember that. That's really interesting. I doubt if it would have any ecological purpose, though.

Anyway, I just don't see how the moons could be described the way they do without sharing the same orbit. Several of Saturn's moons are oriented this way, so it wouldn't be an unlikely scenario.

Oh yeah; for a moon to have exactly the same period of rotation on its axis and revolution around its planet is neither strange nor uncommon. It does this because it's tidally locked into place.

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