Yeah, good guess. Geez, tidal transfer of momentum has been going on since orbit started. :') Bodies in prograde motion around the parent body also slow on their axis, because they are transferring momentum to the parent body, but the parent body is (obviously) larger and the satellites move out. Bodies in retrograde gradually migrate inward and kerplunk.
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06/01/2009 6:59:33 PM PDT by
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43 posted on
06/01/2009 9:47:28 PM PDT by
rdl6989
To: SunkenCiv
What is 'angular momentum' as used in this particular article?
44 posted on
06/01/2009 9:57:48 PM PDT by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: SunkenCiv
The earth is getting bigger.
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06/01/2009 10:08:19 PM PDT by
smokingfrog
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To: SunkenCiv
Anybody that uses “prograde” in a sentence ought to be pants’d.
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06/02/2009 7:10:17 AM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: SunkenCiv
the sun and Earth are gradually moving apart. It's not much -- just 15 cm per year... In 1000 years that's 150 meters! There's only one solution. We have to stop the metric system NOW!
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