> > 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).
>
> If the moon were tidally locked, though, the rotation around the planet would
> essentially be the day/night cycle. Depending on the speed of the orbit, days and
> nights could be exceptionally long by our standards. A lunar day on our moon is
> roughly 30 Earth days.
It'd be exactly a moonth, if they'd just fix the months and stop worrying about them ending at the same time as the years. New moon should always = new month.
Ganymede orbits Jupiter in roughly a week, and is tidally locked. The sun is rather distant, though. I'd move to the planet-ward side for better light, so Jupiter would go dim for half of every week.
Io gets around in only 42.5 hours, give or take, but it doesn't look like a nice place to live.
So anyway, there's no reason for the orbital period of Endor to be very long, but it is. Over 400 days, though I don't know if those are Endor days (18 hours) or Earth days. Those numbers are probably there just to explain how it manages to be a "forest" moon. If the planet (also Endor) isn't the primary source of light and heat, those Ewoks are in for some long, cold, dark winters.
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