This paper presents one analytical tidal theory for a viscoelastic multi-layered body with an arbitrary number of homogeneous layers. Starting with the static equilibrium figure, modified to include ...

The Moon exhibits synchronous rotation, a consequence of Earth's gravitational influence locking its rotational period to its orbital period. Despite synchronous rotation, observers on Earth can ...

Mercury's spin and its orbit around the Sun are tied to each other in a unique arrangement. According to a set of calculations, random asteroid impacts may have aided the planet's evolution into the ...

Mercury might once have orbited the sun in a “synchronous” rotation, before being hit by a large asteroid that flicked the rocky planet into a strange orbit. A synchronous orbit is one in which a body ...

Have you ever wondered why we only see one side of the moon when we look at it from Earth? We would expect to see the other side of the moon because it is a rotating sphere, but this is not the case.

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Would there be any noticeable effects here if the moon rotated at a faster rate than its current synchronous rotation with Earth? Would there be any noticeable effects here if the moon rotated at a ...

In the early morning of April 10, the 100-meter-high main tower of the Longyan Bridge in Fujian, constructed by China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), completed a counterclockwise ...