Timeline for Could a habitable tidally locked planet have a day and night cycle caused by the eccentricity of its orbit?
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| May 23, 2017 at 6:22 | comment | added | HopDavid | The orbits Pluto and Charon have about their barycenter have eccentricities very close to zero, also a product of tidal evolution as is their mutual tide locking. Thanks for the link. It is good to hear Henry Spencer's voice. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 17:37 | comment | added | user | To put that eccentricity figure in perspective, Earth's orbit around the Sun has an eccentricity of approximately 0.0167, and Mars' corresponding value is 0.0934. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 10:53 | history | answered | pablodf76 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |