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From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Synchronous rotation
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.190858.11889@ns.network.com>
Date: 9 Nov 90 19:08:58 GMT
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17001_1511@uwovax.uwo.ca Phil Stooke writes:
>This produces stresses and movements in the crust
>which involve some energy dissipation. Therefore energy is slowly being
>lost from the system, and that manifests itself as a gradual slowing of the
>rotation period, until syncronous rotation is reached.

Okay -- so where does the angular momentum go?  It has to be conserved.

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