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Old 20-June-2006, 09:45 PM
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Cool tidally aligning

I think we might use the term tidal aligning..or some such...since the effect, though long lived ...is not permanent. Eventually, the resonance detunes, and the rotation drifts to another one. Students reading tidal-locking will think it can never change, which is not quite the case for a teaching forum. Pete.
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