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Old November 16th 09, 07:20 AM posted to sci.astro
BradGuth
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Default Alpha Centauri has a planet

On Nov 15, 7:57*pm, granite stone wrote:
I read an article that the moon's force on the mantle might give us
magma and magma is not chemical. *In the same way some of the larger
planets may have a pull on our sun's mantle giving us solar
radiation. *Since the sun spins every 6 days the spin travels through
the pull on the sun's mantle, energy, huge amounts of it, is given
off. *If all stars are suns, you could say each star has planet
pulling on each sun's mantle.

Google Tidal Forces Io and lots come up from NASA.

Jon Riley
Toronto


Our moon contributes 2e20 N/sec, at least some of which causes tidal
heating.

~ BG