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Noun Concept
Categories: Tidal forces, Celestial mechanics, Orbits
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tidal locking  Nonsynchronous Rotation  captured rotation  gravitational locking  locked rotation
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Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change in its rotation rate over the course of a complete orbit. Wikipedia
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Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change in its rotation rate over the course of a complete orbit. Wikipedia
Situation in which an astronomical object's orbital period matches its rotational period Wikidata
The locking of the rotation of a satellite (moon or planet) to its orbit, such that one side always faces the body around which it is orbiting. Wiktionary
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rotation
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tidal locking
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tidal locking
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tidal locking
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captured rotation, gravitational locking, locked rotation, non-synchronous rotation, Nonsynchronous rotation, Nonsynchronous Rotation, Spin-orbit locking, spin-orbit resonance, spin–orbit resonance, synchronous rotation, tidal despinning, tidal lock, tidal locked, tidal spin-down, tidally-locked, tidally lock, tidally locked, tide locked, tidelock
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captured rotation, synchronous rotation

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