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Old July 18th 08, 11:36 PM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.geo.geology,sci.space.history,sci.space.policy,k12.ed.science
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Default Other than terrestrial water and tidal flex heating

On Jul 18, 3:10*pm, "Landy" wrote:

Perhaps you should look up earth tides. *The effect isn't big, but it
exists. *

There are also atmospheric tides that are analogous to ocean tides,
and run on the lunar cycle. But these are swamped out by larger-
amplitude atmosphereic tides that are on the 24 hour heating/cooling
cycle.