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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5344482" data-attributes="member: 177">Some X/2 or X/3 or X/5 are most likely, but it isn't like anything is outright forbidden.  If the thing you're looking for is a sociological effect, then just make the moon do what you want, and the science can go hang <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If I were using this for a setting, I'd not be looking for a way to enforce a standard 24 hour period.  The whole point of this setting is that it is different - the day side is day, and the night side is night - so why force it back to have some secondary day/night?  The impacts of *not* having those enforced limitations are what makes this unique.  Gliese 581 is small, but it is still a star.  While the planets are detected by the star being tugged on, for first approximation, the star's still as rock-solid as it gets.But, yes, that's how this works.  There's a planetary orbit, a planetary spin, a moon orbit, and a moon spin - those are all momenta that can interchange with each other somewhat, and will do so until they reach a stable configuration.  And momentum that doesn't get interchanged among those objects ends up as energy deposited in the moon or planet body as heat - thus the "geologically interesting" period as they settle down. Correct.</blockquote>

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