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And the coolest tidal fact of all (which Rob once prompted me to realise) is that the near-perfect angular size match in solar eclipses means that essentially all the difference in lunar vs solar tidal strength (in the approximation that the separation distances are much larger than the radii of the bodies) is due to the ratio of densities between the sun and the moon.
Greg Egan /
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