<story><title>Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth</title><url>https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_16795199/en/speculoos-discovers-a-potentially-habitable-super-earth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>An orbital period of 2.73 days would mean there&amp;#x27;s no (earth like) seasons and agriculture would not be constrained to growing things at specific times of the year.  A wheat farmer could split their farm into sections and be sowing and harvesting continuously.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s assuming there isn&amp;#x27;t a cycle from freezing to boiling every 2.73 days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>That close to a star, the planet&amp;#x27;s rotation is probably tidally locked with its orbit, which means there&amp;#x27;s no diurnal *or* seasonal cycle. There&amp;#x27;s a summer hemisphere in permanent daylight; a winter hemisphere in permanent night; and a temperate twilight zone in between.</text></comment>
<story><title>Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth</title><url>https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_16795199/en/speculoos-discovers-a-potentially-habitable-super-earth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>An orbital period of 2.73 days would mean there&amp;#x27;s no (earth like) seasons and agriculture would not be constrained to growing things at specific times of the year.  A wheat farmer could split their farm into sections and be sowing and harvesting continuously.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s assuming there isn&amp;#x27;t a cycle from freezing to boiling every 2.73 days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evv555</author><text>Makes me wonder how much of the day sky is taken up by the star during daytime.  Would be quite the view at that distance.</text></comment>