18-March-2002, 09:09 PM
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On 2002-03-18 15:24, DoctorDon wrote:
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On 2002-03-18 10:28, Gary Redmond wrote:
If the Earth were locked to the Sun, the Moon were locked to the Earth, and the Earth were locked to the Moon, the Earth Moon system would no-longer rotate the Moon would crash straight down and the Earth and Moon would become one mass:-)
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No. It's still rotating, it's just that from the point of view of an observer on the earth, the moon would *appear* to hover over the same spot on the earth. By your argument, geostationary satellites should come crashing down.
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I think what he was talking about is a situation where both are locked together with the sun--but there is a couple of lagrange points with that criteria.
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