A season in space

[jungjedi]

what are the names of the seasons on other planets.what are their months called?

[Buffy]

The seasons are mostly the same on the other planets except for Venus which instead of spring, summer, fall, winter is winter, fall, spring, summer and Uranus which is summer, summer, winter, winter.

 

Months will require native beings who decide what bizarre and arbitrary mechanism they want to use to divide their year, and since there aren't any as far as we know, you're free to make up any month names you like! :)

 

Lunar periodicity,

Buffy

[ughaibu]

How about Mercury?

[Buffy]

How about Mercury?

Depending on your abode, summer OR winter....

 

No respite,

Buffy

[Leo]

what are the names of the seasons on other planets.what are their months called?

Since we use some planet names in our months, I expect some of the extraterrestrials use their name for the Earth in one of their months. :)

 

The seasons are mostly the same on the other planets except for Venus which instead of spring, summer, fall, winter is winter, fall, spring, summer

I'm boggled.:) Is it on a period of a Venusian revolution? Venus being almost completely tidal locked, I expected close to no season except the slow night and day alternance. But I don't know much about it. How do you come up with this sequence?

Martially,

Leo

[Buffy]

Venus being almost completely tidal locked, I expected close to no season except the slow night and day alternance. But I don't know much about it. How do you come up with this sequence?

But its not locked (224d orbit vs 243d rotation). That's pretty subtle, and might go over people's heads, so while its still a stretch, recognize that Venus revolves *backwards*...so arguably, Venus' seasons are wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinter, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllll, suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmer, and spriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing...

 

Sidemaginary,

Buffy

[Janus]

what are the names of the seasons on other planets.what are their months called?

 

Here's the thing. Our month is based on the time from full moon to full moon (slightly adjusted so that there are an even number of months in a year.)

 

Following the same pattern, other planet's would based their "months" on the same pattern. This gets a little difficult. For instance, Mars has two moons. So which one do we use? Phobos would be the brightest, but has the shortest period.(.32 days). Deimos is the dimmest but has the longest period (1.26 days). As it is, either one would produce a pretty short month. Another problem is that neither of these will show a visible disk from the surface of the Mars, so they wouldn't show the phases(to the naked eye) that we base our month on.

 

Mercury and Venus have no moons, And Jupiter has dozens. (though to be fair, only a small number would show phases to the naked eye. I suppose that you could devise some type of complicated 'month' based on the phases of those moons.

 

As an aside, another Earthly time perod based on astronomy is the week. The seven days of the week are named after the seven ancient heavenly bodies (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn).

 

Some of these are obvious,

Sunday

Mo(o)nday

Satur(n)day.

 

Others use the nordic or anglo counterparts. For example, Thursday is Thor's day, and Thor is the nordic counterpart of Jupiter.

 

As a purely mental exercise one can determine what knid of weeks one could have ont he other planets:

 

Given the above, the weeks of other planets should be based on the bodies "naked eye visible" from that planet. Mars, for example, would lose Tuesday, but gain days based on the Earth, Phobos and Deimos and would have a nine day week.

 

As you move outward to the other planets, the inner planets would be lost in the glare of the Sun. You'd lose Wednesday, Friday, and eventually Earthday, But would gain days based on the planet's own moons. The outer planets might even become naked eye visible at times and you could have days based on Uranus and Neptune.

[Leo]

But its not locked (224d orbit vs 243d rotation). That's pretty subtle, and might go over people's heads, so while its still a stretch, recognize that Venus revolves *backwards*...so arguably, Venus' seasons are wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinter, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllll, suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmer, and spriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing...

Hehe, I did get why you listed them backward, but the first version had fall and spring side by side. This sounded so exotic that I wanted to know more, and planned to spend a Venusian year there. :hihi:

[jungjedi]

Since we use some planet names in our months, I expect some of the extraterrestrials use their name for the Earth in one of their months. :hihi:

 

 

 

would that be terranday or gaiday.we already have an eartday.thats when we are all supposed to recycle

[Leo]

would that be terranday or gaiday.we already have an eartday.thats when we are all supposed to recycle

 

Yes, doing imaginary etymology on Old English we might get something like Modern English erday or earday. And similarly French terdi, Spanish terres or tierres. :hihi:

 

I mistakingly said the month names come from planet names but it is the day names of course, as Janus pointed out. The month names come either from other Gods (except March for Mars) or other etymologies.