Habitable moon of a gas giant: working out the size of the tide
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I'm creating a fictional planet that orbits a gas giant (a lot like Jupiter). I'm working out all the issues listed here and here. But what I'm really having trouble with is the size of the tide. In a moon with 115% of Earth's mass with an orbital period of 100 days (periapsis distance: 6052380km; apoapsis distance: 6444500km) around Jupiter-like gas giant, how big would the tide be?
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