Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change...
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responsible for the tides and related phenomena, including solid-earth tides, tidal locking, breaking apart of celestial bodies and formation of ring systems within...
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Proxima Centauri b (section Tidal locking)
number of considerations: Both the activity of Proxima Centauri and tidal locking would hinder the establishment of these conditions. Unlike XUV radiation...
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dwarfs are likely to be tidally locked to their primary: that is, their days are as long as their orbits. While tidal locking may adversely affect planets...
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Gliese 581c (section Tidal lock)
resulting from this tidal locking may play a major role in the planet's geology. Models proposed by scientists predict that tidal heating could yield...
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slowdown of the primary's rotation. The process eventually leads to tidal locking, usually of the smaller body first, and later the larger body (e.g....
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Natural satellite (section Tidal locking)
small orbital inclination and eccentricity) in the Solar System are tidally locked to their respective primaries, meaning that the same side of the natural...
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orbit (tidal circularization) and the rotational periods of the two bodies adjust towards matching the orbital period (tidal locking). Sustained tidal heating...
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Moon (section Tidal effects)
Moon's tidal locking, the effect of libration makes about 59% of the Moon's surface visible from Earth over the course of one month. The tidally locked synchronous...
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Orbit (section Tidal locking)
specific useful purposes has been the subject of patents. Some bodies are tidally locked with other bodies, meaning that one side of the celestial body is permanently...
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Eyeball planet (category Tidal forces)
An eyeball planet is a hypothetical type of tidally locked planet, for which tidal locking induces spatial features (for example in the geography or composition...
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stabilize Earth's axis, causes tides and gradually slows Earth's rotation. Tidal locking has made the Moon always face Earth with the same side. Earth, like...
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to be habitable, due to their low stellar flux, high probability of tidal locking, likely lack of magnetospheres and atmospheres, and the high stellar...
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TOI-2257 b (section Tidal locking)
conditions that combat tidal locking. On the other hand, the planet's eccentricity could be a factor working against tidal locking in and of itself; the...
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Kepler-296e (section Tidal locking)
gravitysimulator.org. Retrieved 27 November 2023. Barnes, Rory (1 December 2017). "Tidal locking of habitable exoplanets". Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy...
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maria that make up the man, is always facing Earth. This is due to a tidal locking or synchronous orbit. Thought to have occurred because of the gravitational...
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bodies are tidally locked to each other. The dwarf planet systems Pluto–Charon and Eris–Dysnomia are the only known examples of mutual tidal locking in the...
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Mercury in fiction (section Tidal locking)
scant attention. Later, when it was incorrectly believed that it was tidally locked with the Sun creating a permanent dayside and nightside, stories mainly...
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Tide (redirect from Tidal flow)
global atmospheric flow Tidal barrage – Dam-like structure Tidal island – Island accessible by foot at low tide Tidal locking – Situation in which an...
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Europa (moon) (section Tidal friction)
meridian is a line passing through this point. Research suggests that tidal locking may not be full, as a non-synchronous rotation has been proposed: Europa...
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Arnold tongue (redirect from Phase locking)
instruments, orbital resonance and tidal locking of orbiting moons, mode-locking in fiber optics and phase-locked loops and other electronic oscillators...
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Gliese 581g (section Tidal locking)
been dubbed "Eyeball Earth" by the author. Modeling of the effect of tidal locking on Gliese 581g's possible atmosphere, using a general circulation model...
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stationary in Mercury's sky. The 3:2 resonant tidal locking is stabilized by the variance of the tidal force along Mercury's eccentric orbit, acting on...
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surface of planets orbiting them at a distance that does not induce tidal locking. K-type stars may be able to support life far longer than the Sun. Whether...
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their star, including probable tidal locking. Even in a small yellow dwarf like Tau Ceti, of type G8.5V, the locking limit is at 0.4237 AU versus the...
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lunar day is therefore the time of a full lunar day-night cycle. Due to tidal locking, this equals the time that the Moon takes to complete one synodic orbit...
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injection locking. When the second oscillator merely disturbs the first but does not capture it, the effect is called injection pulling. Injection locking and...
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motion, increasing its distance from Earth and its orbital period (see tidal locking for a more detailed explanation of this process). Flywheel List of energy...
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Exoplanet (section Tidal heating)
near the star; thus, 85% of the exoplanets detected are inside the tidal locking zone. In several cases, multiple planets have been observed around a...
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K2-332 b (section Tidal locking)
com. Retrieved November 21, 2023. Barnes, Rory (December 1, 2017). "Tidal locking of habitable exoplanets". Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy...
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