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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Re: Cosmos without Gravitation
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.194819.10641@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:48:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.181629.14481@nmsu.edu> sdoe@nmsu.edu (Stephen Doe) writes:
- }In article <1992Dec29.164826.5044@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
- }>In article <1992Dec29.143703.7029@hsr.no> onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
- }>}>13. If planets and satellites were once molten masses...they would not have been
- }>}>able to
- }>}>obtain spherical form, especially those which do not rotate, as Mercury or the
- }>}>moon (with
- }>}^^^^^
- }>}>respect to its primary)
- }>}
- }>}
- }>}That is simply not true. The moon is rotating (ever heard of earth rise?)
- }>}although only slightly.
- }>
- }>wobbles, not rotate. If it rotated, 100% would (eventually) become visable.
- }>It doesn't.
- }
- }The moon does rotate, but the period of rotation equals the period of
- }revolution about the Earth--*that's* why the same side of the moon is
- }always facing us. This is due to our tidal interaction with the moon.
- }If the Earth-moon system lasts long enough, someday the Earth will be
- }tidally locked to the moon (i. e., always present the same side.)
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- Read, please: "(with respect to its primary)
- Naturally, it does wrt sol.
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