Celestial Mechanics 03
Channel: lukas h
Date: 2013-04-07

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In the third video of my Celestial Mechanics series, I rebut Ian Juby's and by extension Wayne Spencer's misguided pontifications regarding tidal heating on the Jovian moon Io. Wayne Spencer has a masters degree in physics, although I suspect he cribbed most of the answers in his Analytical Mechanics exam.

As always I had to simplify all my points and so some interesting aspects might be missing. I urge anyone to do their own research to verify my points and to further expand their horizon.

I wand to thank the Youtube users Paul C. Hartley and The Living Dinosaur for inspiring my style.
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Ian's video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFzJapa2REs
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References:
(1) http://www.nature.com/news/planetary-science-caught-in-the-act-1.12324
(2) Tidal dissipation and the age of Io, Wayne Spencer M.S. (2003), http://creationanswers.net/astron/ICC5-43_2003Io.pdf
(3) Melting of Io by Tidal Dissipation, S. J. Peale, P. Cassen, R. T. Reynolds, Science, Vol. 203, No. 4383 (Mar. 2, 1979), pp. 892-894
(4) Tidal dissipation at arbitrary eccentricity and obliquity, Jack Wisdom, Icarus (2007), http://web.mit.edu/wisdom/www/dissipation.pdf
(5) Galilean satellite evolution: observational evidence for secular changes in mean motion, J. H. Lieske, Astronomy & Astrophysics (1987), http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987A%26A...176..146L 
(6) Secular acceleration of Io derived from mutual satellite events, K. Aksnes, F. A. Franklin, The Astronomical Journal 122:2734-2739 (2001), http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/122/5/2734 
(7) Strong tidal dissipation in Io and Jupiter from astrometric observations, Valéry Lainey, Jean-Eudes Arlot, Özgür Karatekin & Tim Van Hoolst, Nature 459, 957-959 (2009)
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Music:
(1) Beethoven, Symphony No. 5

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Licence:
Creative Commons attribution non-commercial share alike (CC BY-NC-SA)