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robryan
on Sept 30, 2010
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Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered
Certain tidal force being exerted I think, it would be a combination of distance and the mass of the star.
zeteo
on Sept 30, 2010
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That doesn't say much. How can you know for sure that such a planet will be tidally locked? At low orbital radii, you even get relativistic effects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Per...
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