Questions tagged [tidal-locking]
Questions regarding a phenomenon when an object has an orbital period that is equal to its rotational period due to gravitational tidal forces.
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Is the moon's revolution speed increasing or decreasing
I've come across multiple answers to this question. So, the moon is moving away from the Earth a couple of centimeters per year and the Earth's rotation is slowing down. Here it says the moon's ...
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Would a tidally locked planet be always increasing in temperature?
Okay, say we have a tidally locked planet that has one side facing its star. On the side that always faces the star, my question is will that side facing the star always be increasing in temperature? ...
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Can a solar system exist where the second planet rotates fast, and the third planet is tidally locked to their star?
Today I read about the Romulan home star system and it looks like it might be impossible for such a star system to exist.
Memory Alpha describes Remus:
Remus was tidally locked, with one ...
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Does habitable zone take tidally locked bodies into account?
Imagine a tidally locked planet orbiting a red dwarf, where habitability is not situated close to terminator zone, but on a "small" cap normal to incident starlight (zenith) with permanent average +15 ...
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Eventual outcome of tidal acceleration and deceleration
So, I know the Moon experiences tidal acceleration from the Earth. And, from what I've read, if not for the fact that the sun would boil away the oceans and engulf both of them first, about 50 billion ...
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A "tidally locked" double planet?
First, I'd like to take the definition of a "double-planet" as two bodies orbiting each other where the center of gravity is not inside the larger body. Also, the system would have to fill other ...
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Is it coincident that all planets with tight orbit are tidally locked to their parent body?
I know mercury is tidal locked to our Sun like our Moon is to Earth, is it merely coincident or there is some sciences behind it? Some man-made communication satellites are also tidal locked to Earth! ...
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Tidal locking of a moon [duplicate]
When a moon is in orbit around it's planet but is so close that it will become tidally locked does it experience a large 'wobble' in between the phase when it still has its own rotation and the final ...
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Are exoplanets at dwarf stars less likely to have super-rotating atmospheres or asynchronous tidal locking?
Dwarf stars have terrestrial sized planets orbiting in habitable zones very close to them. These exoplanets are often said to be tidally locked to their star, like the Moon is to Earth, and that they ...
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If Pluto is tidally locked with Charon, is its rotation still slowing down?
I know that a a planet or moon's rotation will slow down or speed up until it is tidally locked with a body, is Pluto's rotation being affected by the sun or is it being forced by Charon just to to be ...
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How is Mercury tidally locked if the ratio is not 1:1?
The ratio for a planet to be tidally locked has to be 1:1, but the ratio for Mercury is 3:2. How is Mercury tidally locked if the ratio is not 1:1?
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Requirements for a satellite/planet to be tidally locked to a planet/star
The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, the Four Galilean are tidally locked as well, and the recently found planetary sistem TRAPPIST-1 has seven tidally locked planets, but Venus or Mercury are not....
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What is the level of tidal heating between bodies that are already in mutual tidal lock?
As I understood tidal heating, it comes from tidal force acting upon a body as it spins, distorting it; the wave of distortion travels along the surface (along with apparent travel of the other body ...
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Is the moon "perfectly" tidally locked and, if not, how long would it take us to observe it's rotation?
I have a general understanding of how and why a body in space can be tidally locked to it's planet or sun and I'm aware that our moon is in such a state.
My question is, if our moon once had a ...
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Will the Earth ever be tidally locked to the Moon?
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Momentum is being transfered from the Earth's rotation to the Moon's orbit by tidal friction. The Earth's rotation slows down and the Moon receedes from the Earth as it ...
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