MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: That's no moon...

> > ... it's a space station.
>
> I was think the other day about how the Ewoks come from the moon of Endor - that
> would be weird, an inhabital, temperate planet that was actually the moon of a gas
> giant (I assume that's what Endor was meant to be) what would the day / night cycle
> be like for one? how long would a year be? etc?

Depends on how you define a year. I guess they would have 2 kinds of years, a lesser year (rotation around Endor) and a major year (rotation around Endor's star).

However the gas giant wouldn't be so giant. Probably product of a small second generation star (e.g. the Sun is a third gen star). If it were larger, it would be further from the star, so the moon would be frozen and non inhabitable. If not with a size like Jupiter but a distance like Mars, its orbit would be unstable so it would have been swallowed by the star or launched in an elliptic orbit making it again non inhabitable.

But this is all junk, I know nothing of astrophysics.

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