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Is the process responsible for Triton's nearly perfect circular orbit going to happen in my fictional world?
First of all, I'd like to point out that I'm a worldbuilder and I like my worlds to be as physically possible as... possible.
I am in the process of building a world with a habitable moon orbiting ...
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attractors of Mercury's spin-orbit relation
Mercury rotates at such a rate that the Sun appears to stand nearly still at perihelion, when the tide is strongest.
Is there a mechanism that tends to adjust the orbital eccentricity to improve the ...
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