Sentences with phrase «strong tidal interactions»
It is rather early to speculate, but maybe Pluto captured Charon only a few hundred million years ago (rather than billions), and we are seeing the effect of the very strong tidal interactions that would have ensued.
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«When you're so close to the star, tidal interactions become so strong that they can rip apart the surface of a planet and destroy it,» says Roberto Sanchis - Ojeda, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.