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   From: fin@albedo.no-spam.demon.co.uk.retro.com   
      
   Henry Spencer wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Craig Fink   wrote:   
   >   
   >>Just wondering how big the tides on Titan might be?   
   >>Maybe they're huge?   
   >   
   >   
   > Yes and no.  Your intuition is correct that Saturn will raise very large   
   > tidal bulges in Titan.  *However*, Titan is tide-locked to Saturn, so   
   > those big bulges don't move around much -- the moon is basically just a   
   > little bit egg-shaped all the time.   
   >   
   > Titan's slightly elliptical orbit will cause the bulges to move around a   
   > little, and also to change height slightly as the distance from Saturn   
   > changes.  So they aren't *quite* completely fixed, but fairly close to it.   
   >   
      
   How about tides due to other moons? (I think Rhea or Dione would be the   
   best candidates.) They wouldn't be anything like the size of our lunar   
   tides, but maybe there'd be a measurable effect.   
      
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