Do other planets have months?

Answer 1

In general, only days. Earth months are based on the period of the moon's revolution around the Earth. Other planets have several moons on different orbits, so it would be hard to tell. But they have "years", too. Other planets' "years" would depend on how long they take to revolve around the sun, same thing for an Earth year.

Answer 2

Well they could have if they had anyone living on them to think up the idea and develop printing presses to print the calendars, etc. One complete orbit of the particular planet around the Sun would be the time of one year, and they could divide the year up any way they chose, like maybe divide the total orbit time by 10 and have ten months to a year. That would warm the souls of all the Euro community who like that milligram, gram, kilogram type stuff that is all easily worked
using powers of ten.

They could also count up how3 many times their moon circled around the planet in one complete sun orbit and use that number to set up the total number of months...

But, what about planets that have no moons?
And, what about planets that have more than one moon?
Then what? Would you suggest they have Big Moon Months and Little Moon Months? Boy that would be confusing. April Fool's Day would be on April 1, or on April 101. Summer Vacation might (or might not) start on June 1 depending upon who is talking.

Answer 3

The month is based on the phases of the Earth's moon. A similar thing could be used for time on another planet.

Answer 4

A month is just a convenient way of counting time, 4 weeks or so at a time -- based on the phase of the moon. The concept does not apply anywhere else.

Answer 5

other planets have years. a year is the time it takes the earth to revolve around the sun, so a year on earth is different from a year on jupiter. months arent a real amount of time. we made them up to help us keep track of days.

Answer 6

Months are just a way for humans to measure time. Years are a revolution around your star and days are a full rotation. So, no.

Answer 7

The Earth 'Months' as we know them were arbitrarily created by man and sometimes named after ancient rulers like Augustus (August) and Julius (July) to honor themselves. They don't coincide with anything, not even the Seasons. (by the way, Australia has 6 very distinct seasons, not four like us here in N. America)

Other planets can have months too, just make 'em up yourself, copywrite them, and there you go!

Have fun!

Answer 8

Yes and no. Months are a man made time scale. There is no physical reason we break down a year into 12 months. There are 365 days in a year, why don't we break down the year into four eaqual parts or five or six. My point is it doesn't matter what we call them. Maybe you are thinking of seasons.

Answer 9

Months are artificial calendar units that people have made for our own time-counting convenience.

Years are determined by revolution. Months are artificial. Ours aren't even according to the moon.

Answer 10

Divide the time it takes foe a planet to go around the sun once and that's a month. Take a few days move them around so it comes out odd and then you have ours