Assertion: mercury | /r/HasProperty | locked to the sun
Facets:
value: tidally
type: MANNER
value: synchronously
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Mercury is nearly tidally locked to the Sun and over time this has slowed the rotation of the planet to almost match its orbit around the Sun.
text: It is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.[a]
text: Mercury is nearly tidally locked to the Sun and over time this has slowed the rotation of the planet to almost match its orbit around the Sun.
text: It was once assumed that Mercury was tidally locked to the Sun and took the same number of days to rotate on its axis once as it did to orbit the Sun--a period of 88 Earth days.
text: Astronomers used to suspect that Mercury was tidally locked to the Sun, meaning that it always showed the same face to the Sun – similar to how the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth.
text: Astronomers used to think that Mercury was tidally locked to the Sun, where its rotational period matched its orbital period.
text: For many years it was thought that Mercury was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and always keeping the same face directed towards the Sun, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces Earth.
text: It is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance.
text: Scientists once believed Mercury was tidally locked with the sun, meaning that one side of the planet always faces the sun because it takes the same amount of time to rotate around its axis as it does to revolve around the star.