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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

If there’s comparable oceans, tides would get a bit chaotic. Unless they’re pretty much balancing themselves out- their orbits would basically have to be circular and their mass balanced with their barycenters all in the same place. If the orbits are different (which is almost certainly true), then the tides get whining fast. Also the moons would muck about with things like satellites orbiting.

2 suns would depend on a few things- how far and what stellar type? Is it a relatively stable binary or is one ingesting the other?

If they’re fairly stable and not spitting out angry stellar winds, and your planet is in the Goldilocks zone, your seasons would get whonky, especially if you orbit both stars or you mostly orbit one star and get pulled around in whonky ways by the second.

You can have some really weird shaped (and stable!) orbits that would change seasons and day night cycles in some ways. (You could even have an orbit that’s just in a line, bouncing between them, or bean-shaped orbits, etc. random loops added in when your planet gets too close.)

The chaotic orbits might strip moons off (and maybe they come back.)

You might have weird religions.

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