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Tidal locking is when the rotation of a planet or moon is equal to its orbital period. It's actually quite common in our solar system and likely elsewhere. How does that actually happen though? Nick Lucid - Host/Writer/Editor/Animator Sean Reese - Researcher ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS Earth Surface Scale: https://youtu.be/jffQVdJdoKQ Life Cycle of the Sun: https://youtu.be/GltTRdM1RW4 ________________________________ RELATED YOUTUBE VIDEOS MinutePhysics on Tidal Locking: https://youtu.be/6jUpX7J7ySo ________________________________ SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/ScienceAsylum YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXgNowiGxwwnLeQ7DXTwXPg/join Advanced Theoretical Physics (Paperback): http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-lucid/advanced-theoretical-physics-a-historical-perspective/paperback/product-24250687.html Advanced Theoretical Physics (eBook): https://gumroad.com/l/ubSc Merchandise: https://www.scienceasylum.com ________________________________ HUGE THANK YOU TO THESE SUPPORTERS Asylum Counselors: Matthew O'Connor, Nikolaos Vasiloglou II Asylum Orderlies: Dhruv Singhal, Fabio Manzini, Medec Hurtz Einsteinium Crazies: Bosphorus, Eoin O'Sullivan, Ilya Yashin, Jonathan Lima, Joseph Salomone, OnlineBookClub, Sean K, Wacky, Blank NA, Flying Monkey, Christopher Schiele Plutonium Crazies: Al Davis, Compuart, Ellis Hall, Kevin MacLean, Madhu Subbu, Rick Myers, Vid Icarus Platinum Crazies: André Weyermann, Benjamin Dixon, Benjamin Reynolds, Clayton Bruckert, David Johnston, James Coley, Jon Adams, Jonas Wepeel, Jonathan Reel, Kyle Bowles, Marino Hernandez, Mikayla Eckel Cifrese, Mr. Orn Jonasar, Olga Cooperman, Patrick Mathieson, Stephen Blinn, Stephen Gailey, Tom Hawking, Don Wilshe ________________________________ OTHER SOURCES General Info: https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/tidal.html https://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/essays/1995-11-the-tidal-force.php https://phys.org/news/2013-10-explanation-rotational-state-mercury.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/news/mro-20080409.html https://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/vt-2004/Background/Infol2/EIS-A3.html https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/in-depth/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/pluto-moons/charon/in-depth/ https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html Deeper Reading: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103596901177 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2011/04/aa15809-10/aa15809-10.html https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-017-9783-7 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspa.1909.0008 "Mercury" by T.J. Mahoney https://books.google.com/books?id=iC65BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 "Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System" by John Lewis https://books.google.com/books?id=35uwarLgVLsC&pg=PA242 "Solar System Dynamics" by Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott https://books.google.com/books?id=aU6vcy5L8GAC&pg=PA184 ________________________________ LINKS TO COMMENTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRx6Zub3cA&lc=UgwNZH0FkuC_U0HvyqZ4AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRx6Zub3cA&lc=UgxcqK50FO126H6CAup4AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRx6Zub3cA&lc=UgzVEgFii8-rWCWi3oF4AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRx6Zub3cA&lc=UgyHLhrH-wv2bkjBDLh4AaABAg ________________________________ IMAGE CREDITS Moon Phases: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4874 Tide Animations: https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/tides/ Mars's Moons: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/6141/martian-moon-deimos-in-high-resolution/ https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/6989/mars-moon-phobos/ Jupiter's Moons: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00583 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19048 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00716 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/217/capturing-callisto/?category=moons/jupiter-moons_callisto Saturn's Moons: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21624 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/rhea/in-depth/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/iapetus/in-depth/ Pluto and Charon: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-and-charon-new-horizons-dynamic-duo Trappist-1: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/PIA21751/trappist-1-system-artist-concept ________________________________ TIME CODES: 00:00 Cold Open 00:23 Introduction 00:49 Resonance 03:25 Tidal Bulges 06:05 The Factors 09:15 Outro 09:33 Featured Comment ________________________________ Corrections: 8:51 My statement about "eyeball planets" lacks nuance. Please read the comment from a NASA climate scientist for more details. Link is in pinned comment.