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Would ocean tides on the moon of a gas giant really be kilometers high?

I was reading an article on exomoon habitability constrained by illumination and tidal heating. The article imagines an Earth-like exomoon around Jupiter-like host planet. That got me thinking about ...
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In a two-body problem, is the argument of periapse the same for both bodies in orbit?

I'm trying to find the argument of periapse $\omega$ for a certain planet which has been studied with imaging, spectroscopy and radial velocity. In the literature I've only been able to find the ...
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