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Originally posted by MAC269
reply to post by sp00n1
Dear sp00n1
I really hate to say this but there are people out there that would say, is GOD not wonderful providing us with this unusual object that we call the Moon which makes life possible here on the Earth he created. Most likely 6,000 odd years ago.
Then again people will also say what a wonderful co-incidence.
Sorry as much as I would like it to be there is no proof of anything but good luck there.
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
And still no answer as to why the planets are not Tidally locked to the sun, yet the moons are???
Just askin lol ;p
Korg.
Originally posted by sp00n1
What If We Had No Moon?!
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
And still no answer as to why the planets are not Tidally locked to the sun, yet the moons are???
Just askin lol ;p
Korg.
For many years it was thought that Mercury was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and always keeping the same face directed towards the Sun, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. However, radar observations in 1965 proved that the planet has a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, rotating three times for every two revolutions around the Sun; the eccentricity of Mercury’s orbit makes this resonance stable—at perihelion, when the solar tide is strongest, the Sun is nearly still in Mercury’s sky.