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Meaning of "tidally locked"

tidally locked - describes an astronomical phenomenon where one side of an astronomical body always faces another. This phrase is often used in discussions about planets, moons, and celestial bodies with fixed rotational and orbital synchronization
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  • Having undergone tidal locking.

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tidally locked
It is assumed to be tidally locked to its parent star.
These planets are also thought to be tidally locked.
The star is not tidally locked to the planet.
The novel is set in a world that is tidally locked.
It is tidally locked in a synchronous rotation.
The planet is likely to be tidally locked.
These tidally locked planets have a permanent dayside and a permanent nightside.
At least one or two of them will be tidally locked.
Osiris is tidally locked.
Finally we know that they are probably tidally locked.
It may be tidally locked.
This is so close that any habitable planets would be tidally locked.
Suen is tidally locked.
Researchers also know that the planet is tidally locked to.
Will be tidally locked.

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The eccentricity of its orbit means that it avoids becoming tidally locked.
Tidally locked moons do not have synchronous orbit possibilities either because of their slow rotation.
A third possibility is where the primary and moon are tidally locked to each other.
Triton is tidally locked and thus always keeps the same face toward Neptune.
Which means there is a likelihood at least one or two of them will be tidally locked.
Usually, only the satellite is tidally locked to the larger body.
The exoplanet is close enough to its host star that it might be tidally locked.
The planet is tidally locked to its star, always presenting the same face to it.
Many other large moons in the solar system are tidally locked with their partner.
A tidally locked planet rotates only very slowly, and so can not produce a geodynamo at its core.
This is because it is nearly tidally locked to the Sun.
Manwë has significant and irregular photometric variability, demonstrating that its components are not tidally locked.
Pluto and its moon Charon are both tidally locked to each other.
Titan 's tidally locked so the same hemisphere always faces Saturn.
Pluto and its largest satellite Charon are tidally locked to one another.
This celestial body is tidally locked and has phases, very similar to Earth 's moon.
Charon is the largest of the moons and mutually tidally locked with Pluto.
Is Phobos tidally locked with Mars, or does it spin?
It 's really close to the sun and tidally locked.
The chance that it is tidally locked is approximately 50.
Orbiting so close to its star, the planet would probably be tidally locked.
So it 's likely that the planet has become tidally locked due to gravitational forces.
Mike Brown suspects that like the Pluto-Charon system, Orcus and Vanth are tidally locked.
COROT-1b is presumed to be tidally locked to its star.
Brown suspects that, like Pluto and Charon, Orcus and Vanth are tidally locked.
Yes, it 's tidally locked to Earth, so shows us only one face.
Thus in astronomical timescales, the moon became tidally locked very fast.
All planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are likely to be tidally locked.
Narrator, Osiris is tidally locked.
At this proximity, TRAPPIST-1c is most likely tidally locked.

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