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IANAAstrophysicist, but I'm pretty sure that, with no external driving force, such an oscillation in differential rotation rates would die out quite quickly.
by dtgriscom 3y ago
IANAAstrophysicist, but I'm pretty sure that, with no external driving force, such an oscillation in differential rotation rates would die out quite quickly.
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- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoMe neither, but given that that's what's still happening in Earth it seems plausible that it's still happening in Saturn. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9916 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9916
- wcarss 3y agoIt could be related to tides?
- fwlr 3y agoI would have thought so too, but losing 6 minutes out of 10.5 hours in just 25 years is a pretty major change on the timescales that planets operate on.