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Help with my science fiction novel.?
Hi, I'm writing a science fiction novel. The setting is going to be somewhere on a moon of a gas giant in the habitable zone. I don't want to make a fake Solar System for a real one will seem more interesting. Can somebody please send me a list of Gas giants in their parent star's habitable zone. (Preferably one that is about the age of our own system and no further than 50 light years away, Thanks!
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- John WLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
James Cameron went to extremes to find a likely planetary system for such a Moon and he chose Alpha Centauri A. It would be easier to chose a extrasolar terrestrial planet as there's a single list of habitable extrasolar planets but for other planets, the lists are by method of search.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_universe_of... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potential_hab... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extrasolar_pl... - Anonymous8 years ago
I never understood how the moon of Pandora worked in Avatar. If it's orbiting a gas giant, wouldn't it be concealed from the view of the sun 50% of the time, whenever it's behind the gas giant? Maybe if it orbited REALLY fast like once every 24-ish hours and was tidal locked then it would be like night/day cycle though the longer it took the colder and more extreme the tempreature range. But that would also mean only one side of the planet would get much light at all.
