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<blockquote data-quote="Rampant" data-source="post: 5820109" data-attributes="member: 52859"><p>Well the first issue is the whole running through the cycle twice bit. </p><p></p><p>Either it's an artificial construction in order to keep the day counts in line i.e. 721 days in a year, but the cycle of seasons repeats every 360.5 days so to keep from screwing the schedule they just set the calendar to run through two cycles so the new year always starts at the same time of day roughly.</p><p></p><p>Or the cycle is lopsided in some manner, maybe the second run through the year is accelerated or deccelerated compared to the first, maybe one or both of the moons blocks some of the sunlight during one of the cycles so there's a warm time and a cold time. </p><p></p><p>If you define the year as the time it takes for the plane to complete one circuit around the sun you could give it a skewed orbit. Instead of the ellipse's base being centered around the sun the plane goes around in a narrower where twice a year it passes close by and then gets slung out a bit on both ends. So instead of an egg shaped rotation imagine the sun at the center of a circle but then pull two opposite points of the circle out away form the sun and let the areas not being pulled out pull closer to the star.</p><p></p><p>like this but with the sun in the middle</p><p><a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=File:Red_oval.svg&filetimestamp=20080614143846" target="_blank">http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=File:Red_oval.svg&filetimestamp=20080614143846</a></p><p></p><p>is that making any sense?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rampant, post: 5820109, member: 52859"] Well the first issue is the whole running through the cycle twice bit. Either it's an artificial construction in order to keep the day counts in line i.e. 721 days in a year, but the cycle of seasons repeats every 360.5 days so to keep from screwing the schedule they just set the calendar to run through two cycles so the new year always starts at the same time of day roughly. Or the cycle is lopsided in some manner, maybe the second run through the year is accelerated or deccelerated compared to the first, maybe one or both of the moons blocks some of the sunlight during one of the cycles so there's a warm time and a cold time. If you define the year as the time it takes for the plane to complete one circuit around the sun you could give it a skewed orbit. Instead of the ellipse's base being centered around the sun the plane goes around in a narrower where twice a year it passes close by and then gets slung out a bit on both ends. So instead of an egg shaped rotation imagine the sun at the center of a circle but then pull two opposite points of the circle out away form the sun and let the areas not being pulled out pull closer to the star. like this but with the sun in the middle [url]http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=File:Red_oval.svg&filetimestamp=20080614143846[/url] is that making any sense? [/QUOTE]
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