Warp wrote:
>   I'm not a physicist, but I still think you have got some errors in your
> thinking.

Quite possibly. But look at it this way: Say the altitude of the moon over 
the earth was 1000x what it is now, and the moon was orbiting appropriately 
slower? What if the outside of the moon's orbit was close to where Venus is? 
Certainly there would be different dynamics. Hence, in the limit, there's 
obviously some point where the influence of the sun overwhelms the influence 
of the earth. I don't know where that point is, mind, or whether it would 
occur before or after the planets were tidally locked 100%.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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