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Subject: Where is the energy coming from?

Date: Sat Jan 26 01:06:35 2002
Posted by Paul
Grade level: teacher/prof School: Churchill Secondary
City: Vancouver State/Province: BC Country: Canada
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 1012025195.As
Message:

Given, in a system the sum of matter and energy does not change.  Where is the source 
of energy in the following system?  As Europa orbits Jupiter, it gets deformed by the 
enormous gravitational forces (tides), this kneading of its thick, icy surface (?60km) would 
create sufficient friction to heat the core (electromagnetic energy) and possibly have 
some of the ice liquify. The question is, if energy is apparently created, where is it sucked 
from? Would the orbit be affected (decaying)?


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