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Tidally locked moon (and Pluto) facing directions aren't right #3

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charliewhitfield opened this issue May 22, 2020 · 0 comments
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Tidally locked moon (and Pluto) facing directions aren't right #3

charliewhitfield opened this issue May 22, 2020 · 0 comments
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charliewhitfield commented May 22, 2020 •
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For most tidally locked bodies, which includes all large moons plus Pluto, the facing direction is random.

I adjusted a few by eyeball (our Moon, Europa and Iapetus) based on images. It's hard to find images for other bodies suitable to fix this.

In any case, eyeballing it seems rather imprecise. Please post if you have a more accurate or general solution.
@charliewhitfield charliewhitfield transferred this issue from another repository Feb 10, 2021
@charliewhitfield charliewhitfield changed the title Tidally locked moon and Pluto facings aren't right Tidally locked moon (and Pluto) facings aren't right Feb 11, 2021
@charliewhitfield charliewhitfield changed the title Tidally locked moon (and Pluto) facings aren't right Tidally locked moon (and Pluto) facing directions aren't right Feb 11, 2021
@charliewhitfield charliewhitfield transferred this issue from ivoyager/ivoyager Oct 3, 2023
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