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Could a moon keep orbiting a planet forever?
Our Moon orbits the Earth further away each year due to the tidal forces but could there be a moon orbiting a planet where somehow keeps going further away by the tidal forces but its attracted again ...
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How deep does a gravity well need to be to remove particles from a planetary body?
I almost considered asking this question on WorldBuilding, however I wanted the brute mathematics on the subject, so please excuse the theoretical nature of this question.
I understand the basic ...
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Would a celestial body in a horseshoe orbit be tidally locked to the planet?
A smaller celestial body like a moon or an asteroid can be in a horseshoe orbit around a planet.
Since it might go inside the tidal lock radius (but does not stay inside it all the time), during the ...
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Tidal locking of a planet to a satellite
As in the case of Pluto and its moon Charon, both the bodies are tidally locked to each other, will the Earth ever be tidally locked to the Moon? Is there any effect on the rotation of the Earth ...
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Does a tidally locked planet have seasons?
Could a tidally locked planet have seasons?
According to my understanding, a tidally locked planet rotates around itself exactly once per rotation around its sun. However, if the axis of rotation of ...
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