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To: tbw2

Calculated based on the data in the posted article, its surface gravity would be about 3.5% greater than on earth, surprisingly similar. Wikipedia gives 9% lower, which is consistent with the slightly different radius and mass they use. It is almost certainly tidally locked to the its sun, meaning it always keeps the same face towards the sun, just as the Moon keeps the same face towards the sun.


52 posted on 09/05/2013 2:35:52 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

the moon keeps the same face towards the earth, not the sun. A solar day on the moon is 29.53 earth days.


53 posted on 09/05/2013 2:38:04 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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