# showing the moon and the earth phase locked in the year x billion AD # not quite inside a red giant # "Earth5b" "Sol" { Class "planet" Texture "mars.jpg" # it's gonna be old and worn out Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ] SpecularColor [ 0.5 0.5 0.55 ] SpecularPower 25.0 HazeColor [ 1 1 1 ] HazeDensity 0.3 Radius 6378 Atmosphere { Height 60 Lower [ 0.5 0.5 0.65 ] Upper [ 0.3 0.3 0.6 ] Sky [ 0.3 0.6 0.9 ] CloudHeight 7 CloudSpeed 65 CloudMap "earth-clouds.png" } EllipticalOrbit { Period 1.0000 # but should be a trifle smaller SemiMajorAxis 1.0000 # ditto Eccentricity 0.00001 # smothed out Inclination 0.00001 # and worn down AscendingNode 348.739 LongOfPericenter 102.947 MeanLongitude 100.464 # right here and now } RotationPeriod 1072.8 # 44.7 days (ref 1) RotationOffset 280.5 # offset at default epoch J2000 Obliquity 0.0 Albedo 0.30 } "Moon5b" "Sol/Earth5b" { Class "moon" Texture "moon5b.jpg" BumpMap "moonbump1k.jpg" BumpHeight 5.0 Radius 1737.53 Oblateness 0.002 EllipticalOrbit { # P0 Period 27.321661 # a0 SemiMajorAxis 384400 # P=sqrt (K*a**3) so K0= p0**2/a0**3 = 0.1314208E-13 so a=((p**2)/K0)**1/3 Period 44.7 # (ref 1) SemiMajorAxis 533724.6 Eccentricity 0.0 Inclination 0.0 } RotationOffset 43 Albedo 0.12 } #---- # ref 1: # Dynamical History of the Earth-Moon System, G.A. Krasinski, #Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 84: 25-55, 2002 #