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MR. NOLAN is correct in supposing that I made no numerical calculation with regard to the inner satellites of Mars. I accept the calculation which he gives, and admit that the present period of revolution of the satellite cannot be regarded, as I supposed, as a memorial of the primitive period of rotation of the planet.
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DARWIN, G. Tidal Friction and the Evolution of a Satellite. Nature 34, 287–288 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034287a0
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