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Q&A Multiple moons but only one of them is tidally locked to its planet?

The time it takes a moon to become tidally locked to a planet depends on a number of factors. In particular, $t_{lock} \propto \frac{ω a^{6}}{m_{p}^{2}}$ where $ω$ is the moon's initia...

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