tidal theory


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tidal theory:

see solar systemsolar system,
the sun and the surrounding planets, natural satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that are bound by its gravity. The sun is by far the most massive part of the solar system, containing almost 99.9% of the system's total mass.
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In another star system, tidal theory is creating a mystery rather than solving one.
An exoplanet that should not exist
The close approach problem inflicting the known tidal theory is averted in this model.
On the tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon system: a cosmological model
Wallace Hooper's useful survey of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century tidal theories from Copernicus to Wallis finds in modern science a partial (but anachronistic) vindication of Galileo's maligned tidal theory, notably his attention to the shape of sea basins in explaining tidal periods.
The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe

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