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How large can planets or moons appear?
In many artistic impressions or movies there are pictures or scenes where the sky is filled with an enormous moon (as seen from a planet) or vice versa.
I wonder if there is an upper limit to the ...
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Saturn ring stabilization
The rings of Saturn are the most extensive planetary ring system of any planet in the Solar System.
I'm wondering, what power is primarily responsible for that stability?
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How should I be thinking about tides?
I am working on a project for physics that involves tides. This is my current mind set when thinking about tides:
The earth applies a gravitational force on some mass ...
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How gravitation effect on tides
I know that tide is caused by the gravitational pull of moon but what I don't know is how it effects on water. I have actually these doubts.
Why does gravity of the moon creates tides only in water?
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Why Aren't Saturn's Rings Clumping into Moons?
While reading with my son about how a Mars-like planet collided with the early Earth that resulted in our current moon, it said the initial debris also formed a ring, but that ring ended up getting ...
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Determining Average Tidal Effects
Maximum tidal heights vary widely across the globe, from 16 m in the Bay of Fundy to mere centimeters elsewhere. These variations are due to coastline and shoreline differences. This makes it ...
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Why does the moon face earth with the same side?
I know this is an astronomy question, but no such stackexchange site exists. So here I am, asking about the physics of the solar system.
I know that the rotation period of the moon equals its ...
