home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   sci.space.science      Space and planetary science and related      1,217 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 781 of 1,217   
   Christopher M. Jones to Craig Fink   
   Re: So, How big are the tides on Titan?   
   17 Jan 05 20:01:30   
   
   XPost: sci.space.policy   
   From: christopher.m.jones@gmail.com   
      
   Craig Fink wrote:   
   > Just wondering how big the tides on Titan might be?   
   >   
   > Maybe they're huge?   
   >   
   > Low gravity in conjunction with a really big moon called Saturn. After all   
   > motion is relative. ;-)   
      
   Well, they would be.  Or, they are, but they don't move much.   
   Titan is tidally locked to Saturn.  However, it does undergo   
   libration due to a slightly elliptical orbit.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca