Talk:Spock's World

hephaistosynchronous (Memory Alpha:Reference Desk)
In reference to page 129 of the novel Spock's World.

...The Enterprise arrives at Vulcan...

"Standard orbit," Sulu announced. "Fourteen thousand miles hephaistosynchronous."

I searched but no luck with the word hephaistosynchronous.

Any ideas on this one would be greatly appreciated.


 * Hephaistos, or Hephaestus is the Greek god of fire and the forge, his Roman equivalent is Vulcan. I guess that "hephaistosynchronous" is meant to be a synchronous orbit around Vulcan, just like geosynchronous is an orbit around earth. -- Cid Highwind 10:25, 6 Jul 2005 (UTC)

A geosynchronous orbit can appear stationary to ground observers. Perhaps hephaistosynchronous refers to a geostationary orbit over the desert region called The Forge.

Harb Tanzer
Is Harb Tanzer really a computer? In every other novel, he's represented as human Barrycarter (talk) 09:04, June 10, 2013 (UTC)