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jasparagus , 1 year ago to Ask Science in How is the moon tidally locked? Here’s a good explainer: What is tidal locking? phys.org/news/2015-11-tidal.html Basically, the moon acted like a spinning (unbalanced) wheel, and eventually stopped with the “heavy” side pointing “down” towards Earth. I.e. think of the moon as orbiting Earth with the heavy side staying pointed at Earth.
Here’s a good explainer:
What is tidal locking? phys.org/news/2015-11-tidal.html
Basically, the moon acted like a spinning (unbalanced) wheel, and eventually stopped with the “heavy” side pointing “down” towards Earth. I.e. think of the moon as orbiting Earth with the heavy side staying pointed at Earth.