Faster access than browser!
19 relations: Apsis, Cryovolcano, Elliptic orbit, Enceladus, Europa (moon), Galilean moons, Gravitational energy, Io (moon), Jupiter, Love number, Mean motion, Orbital eccentricity, Orbital resonance, Solar System, Tidal acceleration, Tidal circularization, Tidal force, Tidal heating of Io, Tidal locking.
Apsis
An apsis (ἁψίς; plural apsides, Greek: ἁψῖδες) is an extreme point in the orbit of an object.
New!!: Tidal heating and Apsis · See more »
Cryovolcano
A cryovolcano (sometimes informally called an ice volcano) is a type of volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane, instead of molten rock.
New!!: Tidal heating and Cryovolcano · See more »
Elliptic orbit
In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics, an elliptic orbit or elliptical orbit is a Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of less than 1; this includes the special case of a circular orbit, with eccentricity equal to 0.
New!!: Tidal heating and Elliptic orbit · See more »
Enceladus
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.
New!!: Tidal heating and Enceladus · See more »
Europa (moon)
Europa or as Ευρώπη (Jupiter II) is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet.
New!!: Tidal heating and Europa (moon) · See more »
Galilean moons
The Galilean moons are the four largest moons of Jupiter—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
New!!: Tidal heating and Galilean moons · See more »
Gravitational energy
Gravitational energy is the potential energy a body with mass has in relation to another massive object due to gravity.
New!!: Tidal heating and Gravitational energy · See more »
Io (moon)
Io (Jupiter I) is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.
New!!: Tidal heating and Io (moon) · See more »
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
New!!: Tidal heating and Jupiter · See more »
Love number
The Love numbers h, k, and l are dimensionless parameters that measure the rigidity of a planetary body and the susceptibility of its shape to change in response to a tidal potential.
New!!: Tidal heating and Love number · See more »
Mean motion
In orbital mechanics, mean motion (represented by n) is the angular speed required for a body to complete one orbit, assuming constant speed in a circular orbit which completes in the same time as the variable speed, elliptical orbit of the actual body.
New!!: Tidal heating and Mean motion · See more »
Orbital eccentricity
The orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle.
New!!: Tidal heating and Orbital eccentricity · See more »
Orbital resonance
In celestial mechanics, an orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert a regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods are related by a ratio of small integers.
New!!: Tidal heating and Orbital resonance · See more »
Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
New!!: Tidal heating and Solar System · See more »
Tidal acceleration
Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon), and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth).
New!!: Tidal heating and Tidal acceleration · See more »
Tidal circularization
Tidal circularization is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting body, and the primary object that it orbits whereby the eccentricity of the orbit is reduced over time so that the orbit becomes less elliptical and more circular.
New!!: Tidal heating and Tidal circularization · See more »
Tidal force
The tidal force is an apparent force that stretches a body towards the center of mass of another body due to a gradient (difference in strength) in gravitational field from the other body; it is responsible for the diverse phenomena, including tides, tidal locking, breaking apart of celestial bodies and formation of ring systems within Roche limit, and in extreme cases, spaghettification of objects.
New!!: Tidal heating and Tidal force · See more »
Tidal heating of Io
Tidal heating (also known as tidal working) occurs through the tidal friction processes: orbital and rotational energy are dissipated as heat in the crust of the moons and planets involved.
New!!: Tidal heating and Tidal heating of Io · See more »
Tidal locking
Tidal locking (also called gravitational locking or captured rotation) occurs when the long-term interaction between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies drives the rotation rate of at least one of them into the state where there is no more net transfer of angular momentum between this body (e.g. a planet) and its orbit around the second body (e.g. a star); this condition of "no net transfer" must be satisfied over the course of one orbit around the second body.
New!!: Tidal heating and Tidal locking · See more »
