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Everyone knows The famous books of the game Game of Thrones
The action takes place in a hypothetical world with a technological and cultural level that reminds, as in many other works of fantasy, the late Middle Ages of Europe.
However there is a peculiarity, and that is that this world presents a cold and prolonged winters that condition the life and adventures of the protagonists of the series.
According to the novel, winters can be short and mild (about 600 days long) or hard and long (almost 900 days). Apparently, long and short winters follow each other in a chaotic way without a recognizable pattern.
But for a mind with astronomical concerns, things change. If we assume that the world of game of thrones is a terrestrial planet. Is there an explanation?
Yes, the world of Game of Thrones is really a circumbinary planet. or what is the same, a planet that orbits around two stars at the same time.
The planet of Game of Thrones would rotate around two stars of solar type with a period of 700 days. (e = 0.1, almost like the orbit of Mars) and its axis of rotation would have a zero inclination.
The semimajor axis of the orbit would change constantly, presenting a minimum distance to the barycenter of the system of 225 million km minimum and 375 million maximum.
Causing drastic temperature differences.
For its part, the two stars would be about 83 million kilometers from each other.
The ingenious thing about this explanation is that a world with these characteristics could experience long or short winters that would happen erratically without a fixed pattern. That is, just what appears in the work of G. R. R. Martin.
Except for one detail, and is that in the series no mention is made of the presence of a double sun. Although who knows, perhaps they are so accustomed that they do not consider it appropriate to mention it.
The action takes place in a hypothetical world with a technological and cultural level that reminds, as in many other works of fantasy, the late Middle Ages of Europe.
However there is a peculiarity, and that is that this world presents a cold and prolonged winters that condition the life and adventures of the protagonists of the series.
According to the novel, winters can be short and mild (about 600 days long) or hard and long (almost 900 days). Apparently, long and short winters follow each other in a chaotic way without a recognizable pattern.
But for a mind with astronomical concerns, things change. If we assume that the world of game of thrones is a terrestrial planet. Is there an explanation?
Yes, the world of Game of Thrones is really a circumbinary planet. or what is the same, a planet that orbits around two stars at the same time.
The planet of Game of Thrones would rotate around two stars of solar type with a period of 700 days. (e = 0.1, almost like the orbit of Mars) and its axis of rotation would have a zero inclination.
The semimajor axis of the orbit would change constantly, presenting a minimum distance to the barycenter of the system of 225 million km minimum and 375 million maximum.
Causing drastic temperature differences.
For its part, the two stars would be about 83 million kilometers from each other.
The ingenious thing about this explanation is that a world with these characteristics could experience long or short winters that would happen erratically without a fixed pattern. That is, just what appears in the work of G. R. R. Martin.
Except for one detail, and is that in the series no mention is made of the presence of a double sun. Although who knows, perhaps they are so accustomed that they do not consider it appropriate to mention it.
