News on Planetary Science (Tidal Heating 潮熱)

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News – Tidal heating could widen habitability zone
http://www.astronomynow.com/0810 ... bitabilityzone.html

Origin research paper
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rory/publications/jgb08c.pdf


Educational pages:

Tidal heating of Io, Jupiter’s moon.
http://planetaryexploration.net/jupiter/io/tidal_heating.html

Tidal heating tutorial
http://www.astro.washington.edu/ ... Heat/TidalHeat.html

Wiki’s page on tidal effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration


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