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Old January 18th 05, 12:42 AM
Andrew Gray
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On 2005-01-17, Craig Fink wrote:
Just wondering how big the tides on Titan might be?

Maybe they're huge?

Low gravity in conjunction with a really big moon called Saturn. After all
motion is relative. ;-)


I spent Friday watching the ESA TV feed, which included an interview
with someone who'd been working on what to do if Huygens ended up in the
"water". He commented that they'd modelled the hypothetical oceans, by
taking something intended to model oceanic behaviour and changing
virtually every parameter in it, and that the eventual result was that
they expected to get waves which were much larger, but also much slower,
than on Earth; I think a figure quoted was about five? times the height,
but spaced significantly further apart.

Not quite tides, but...

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