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Leconte and his team reached their conclusions via a three-dimensional climate model they developed to predict the effect of a given planet's atmosphere on the speed of its rotation, which results in changes to its climate," said Leconte. "Atmosphere is a key factor affecting a planet's spin, the impact of which can be of enough significance to overcome synchronous rotation and put a planet in a day-night cycle."
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originally posted by: stormbringer1701
phys.org...
Leconte and his team reached their conclusions via a three-dimensional climate model they developed to predict the effect of a given planet's atmosphere on the speed of its rotation, which results in changes to its climate," said Leconte. "Atmosphere is a key factor affecting a planet's spin, the impact of which can be of enough significance to overcome synchronous rotation and put a planet in a day-night cycle."
Read more at: phys.org...
What this means is a lot of planets we thought were inhospitable to life except extremophiles probably are a lot more life friendly. I am not certain how this affects planets close to red dwarfs but it should have some applicability.
in short there is another reason to look seriously at red dwarfs other than the fact statistically nearly all of them have planets and a good portion a majority in fact are said to have planets in the life zone. prior to this such a close relationship would automatically cause astronomers to declare said planets tidally locked. now what?