To: steve-b
Have a link to any of this? I've heard of tidal force wrt black holes, but not regular stars...
Cheers!
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04/09/2009 4:48:35 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
Yes, it can also happen between any two normal, orbiting objects if the conditions are right... Mercury is tidally locked on the Sun, the Moon on the Earth, etc. Wikipedia has a nice little summary
here.
To: grey_whiskers
Oops... It would help if I read my own links, lol... A well known case is the rotation of Mercury—locked to its orbit around the Sun in a 3:2 resonance. -Wikipedia
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