Tidal Locking | Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon?
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References
Jack Wisdom, Professor of Planetary Sciences, MIT (personal communication)
Tidal Locking, Wikipedia.
Matija Cuk and Sarah T. Stewart. 2012. Making the Moon from a Fast-Spinning Earth: A Giant Impact Followed by Resonant Despinning. Science 338, 1047.