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Certain tidal force being exerted I think, it would be a combination of distance and the mass of the star.
by robryan 16y ago
Certain tidal force being exerted I think, it would be a combination of distance and the mass of the star.
- zeteo 16y agoThat doesn't say much. How can you know for sure that such a planet will be tidally locked? At low orbital radii, you even get relativistic effects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Perihelion_precession_of_Mercury http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Per...