It looks like Miguel's confused too. He isn't mad that Boba corrected Dan. He takes a hesitant step closer.
"Stars are mostly made of gases and have a large enough mass to sustain nuclear fusion. Planets are spherical collections of mass that orbit stars. They can't- any planet with a large enough mass to draw a star into its orbit would just collapse and become a star itself."
Boba shifts his weight as he thinks.
"This planet has a Type I atmosphere and standard gravity. There are twenty-four local hours in a day and seasonal changes depending on the planet's relative orbital position. The sun is a medium-sized dwarf star, right? So the habitable zone of this system would be around a hundred-fifty million kilometers..." he clears his throat. He got distracted by a tangent-- he needs to refocus.
"That is, if your sun orbited your planet and your planet isn't spinning on an axis, days and seasons would be the same thing. If your planet is spinning..." brow furrows and he huffs out a frustrated breath.
"Geo-centric models aren't wrong, you can still calculate stuff based on the relative position of objects to a planet, they're just way more complicated. It's a lot easier to calculate coordinates based on stars because stars don't move as much."
Boba only knows the calculations for helio-centric models off the top of his head. He would either have to start from scratch or work backward to map out celestial bodies based on their relative position to a planet, and it would take forever since he doesn't have any of the equipment that would usually run those calculations for him.
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"Stars are mostly made of gases and have a large enough mass to sustain nuclear fusion. Planets are spherical collections of mass that orbit stars. They can't- any planet with a large enough mass to draw a star into its orbit would just collapse and become a star itself."
Boba shifts his weight as he thinks.
"This planet has a Type I atmosphere and standard gravity. There are twenty-four local hours in a day and seasonal changes depending on the planet's relative orbital position. The sun is a medium-sized dwarf star, right? So the habitable zone of this system would be around a hundred-fifty million kilometers..." he clears his throat. He got distracted by a tangent-- he needs to refocus.
"That is, if your sun orbited your planet and your planet isn't spinning on an axis, days and seasons would be the same thing. If your planet is spinning..." brow furrows and he huffs out a frustrated breath.
"Geo-centric models aren't wrong, you can still calculate stuff based on the relative position of objects to a planet, they're just way more complicated. It's a lot easier to calculate coordinates based on stars because stars don't move as much."
Boba only knows the calculations for helio-centric models off the top of his head. He would either have to start from scratch or work backward to map out celestial bodies based on their relative position to a planet, and it would take forever since he doesn't have any of the equipment that would usually run those calculations for him.