Timeline for At what approximate distance and what size should binary planets be for a day to be no more than 30-32 hours long?
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| Jan 18 at 10:03 | vote | accept | Tanya | ||
| Jan 17 at 3:12 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | @AntonSherwood I believe that μ is there because of the torque applied to surface protrusions. Read the linked Wikipedia article on Tidal Locking... | |
| Jan 16 at 20:44 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | Can you define μ more explicitly? It has the units of pressure, but it's not obvious why. | |
| Jan 15 at 9:59 | comment | added | Tanya | Thanks for the link, I tried to use the calculator myself, it showed 53238 km. But I probably haven’t fully figured it out. | |
| Jan 15 at 9:48 | comment | added | Tanya | Thank you! That is, theoretically, at this distance the larger celestial body could be a rocky planet and both would be tidally locked. | |
| Jan 15 at 9:31 | history | edited | Monty Wild♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 15 at 9:06 | history | answered | Monty Wild♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |