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• Tidal acceleration — is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite ( i.e. a moon), and the planet (called the primary) that it orbits. It causes a gradual recession of a satellite in a prograde orbit away from the primary, and a corresponding …   Wikipedia

• Tidal locking — A separate article treats the phenomenon of tidal resonance in oceanography. : See the article tidal acceleration for a more quantitative description of the Earth Moon system. Tidal locking occurs when the gravitational gradient makes one side of …   Wikipedia

• Tidal force — The tidal force is a secondary effect of the force of gravity and is responsible for the tides. It arises because the gravitational acceleration experienced by a large body is not constant across its diameter. One side of the body has greater… …   Wikipedia

• Earth radius — The Earth s shape, like that of all major planets, approximates a sphere. A true sphere has a unique radius, but on Earth the distance from the mean sea level at each point on the surface to the center (the radius of the Earth at a point on the… …   Wikipedia

• Globular cluster — s from the Sun and contains hundreds of thousands of stars. [cite news coauthors =The Hubble Heritage team url = http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1999/26/ title = Hubble Images a Swarm of Ancient Stars work = HubbleSite… …   Wikipedia

• Hyades (star cluster) — Hyades Cluster Observation data (J2000.0 epoch) Constellation …   Wikipedia

• Kugelhaufen — Der Kugelsternhaufen M80 im Sternbild Skorpion befindet sich rund 28.000 Lichtjahre von der Sonne entfernt. Hier befinden sich hunderttausende Sterne.[1] Ein Kugelsternhaufen ist eine kugelförmige An …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Kugelsternhaufen — Der Kugelsternhaufen M80 im Sternbild Skorpion befindet sich rund 28.000 Lichtjahre von der Sonne entfernt. Hier befinden sich hunderttausende Sterne.[1] Ein Kugelsternhaufen (kurz auch Kugelhaufen) ist eine enge, kugelförmige Ansammlung sehr… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Milky Way Galaxy — Large spiral galaxy (roughly 150,000 light years in diameter) that contains Earth s solar system. It includes the multitude of stars whose light is seen as the Milky Way, the irregular luminous band that encircles the sky defining the plane of… …   Universalium

• Beehive Cluster — This article is about the Beehive Cluster. For other uses, see Beehive. Beehive Cluster The Beehive Cluster is an open cluster in Cancer just visible to the naked eye …   Wikipedia

• Pleiades — This article is about the star cluster. For other uses, see Pleiades (disambiguation). Pleiades A color composite image of the Pleiades from the Digitized Sky Survey. Credit: NASA/ESA/AURA/Caltech …   Wikipedia