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Wikipedia gives the formula for the tidal heating $\dot{E}$ as $$\begin{array}{}\text{(1)}& \dot{E}=-\text{Im}(k_2)\frac{21}{2}\frac{R^5{n}^5{e}^2}{G}\end{array}$$ where $R$ is the radius of the satellite, $n$ is something weird cal...

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