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"Paul Lawler" wrote in message
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Really? Which satellites (moons) in our solar system are not tidally
locked to their planets?

Hyperion + Saturn

Correct. Hyperion is locked in a 3:4 orbital resonance with Titan.


More to the point, it's got a 13 day rotation period and a 79 day orbit.
Actually, that's a Voyager result and Hyperion is known to have a
chaotic rotation. Is the period the same now?
Phoebe isn't locked either, it's got a rotation period of about 9 hours.
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