Activity for MasonChane
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Dermott's Law and Major Moons I'm trying to work with Dermott's Law to develop a generalized "formula" for assigning major moons to gas- and ice-giant planets, but it doesn't seem to work. If I use the values specified for Jupiter: $T0 = 0.444$ and $C = 2.03$, and I assume that Ganymede would be considered the third major moon o... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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Tidal locking timescale assumption Is it safe to assume that any two binary planets of 0.5 to 1.5 Earth masses having mass ratios of 1:1 up to 2:1 would always have become tidally locked to one another long before any life could naturally arise on either or both of them? (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |