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===Solar System=== All the bodies below are tidally locked, and all but Mercury are moreover in synchronous rotation. (Mercury is tidally locked, but not in synchronous rotation.) {| class="wikitable" !style="white-space:nowrap;"| Parent body ! Tidally-locked satellites<ref>{{citation | title=Secular effects of tidal friction on the planet–satellite systems of the solar system | last1=Nobili | first1=A. M. | postscript=. | journal=Moon and the Planets | volume=18 | issue=2 | pages=203–216 | date=April 1978 | doi=10.1007/BF00896743 | bibcode=1978M&P....18..203N | s2cid=121510792 }} "The following satellites seem to corotate: Phobos and Deimos, Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Japetus, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon."</ref> |- ! [[Sun]] | [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]<!-- Note: planet is tidally-locked in non-synchronized rotation, per the attached refs--><ref>{{citation | title=The rotational dynamics of Mercury and the state of its core | last1=Peale | first1=S. J. | journal=Mercury | publisher=University of Arizona Press | pages=461–493 | year=1988 | bibcode=1988merc.book..461P | postscript=. }}</ref><ref>{{citation | title=Past and present tidal dissipation in Mercury | pages=671 | display-authors=1 | last1=Rivoldini | first1=A. | last2=Beuthe | first2=M. | last3=van Hoolst | first3=T. | journal=European Planetary Science Congress 2010 | date=September 2010 | bibcode=2010epsc.conf..671R | postscript=. }}</ref><ref name=Noyelles2012/> (3:2 spin–orbit resonance) |- ! [[Earth]] | [[Moon]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Moon's Orbit and Rotation |url=https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/429/the-moons-orbit-and-rotation |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=Moon: NASA Science |archive-date=2023-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801012352/https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/429/the-moons-orbit-and-rotation/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- ! [[Mars]] | [[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]]<ref name=Correia2009/> · [[Deimos (moon)|Deimos]]<ref>{{citation | title=The dynamical evolution and origin of the Martian moons | last1=Burns | first1=J. A. | journal=Vistas in Astronomy | volume=22 | issue=2 | pages=193–208 | year=1978 | doi=10.1016/0083-6656(78)90015-6 | bibcode=1978VA.....22..193B | postscript=. }}</ref> |- ! [[Jupiter]] | [[Metis (moon)|Metis]]<ref name=Burns_et_al_2004>{{citation | display-authors=1 | last1=Burns | first1=Joseph A. | last2=Simonelli | first2=Damon P. | last3=Showalter | first3=Mark R. | last4=Hamilton | first4=Douglas P. | last5=Porco | first5=Carolyn C. | last6=Throop | first6=Henry | last7=Esposito | first7=Larry W. | year=2004 | pages=241–262 | title=Jupiter's Ring-Moon System | work=Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere | publisher=Cambridge University Press | editor1-last=Bagenal | editor1-first=Fran | editor2-last=Dowling | editor2-first=Timothy E. | editor3-last=McKinnon | editor3-first=William B. | url=http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hamilton/research/preprints/BurSimSho03.pdf | access-date=2021-05-07 | bibcode=2004jpsm.book..241B | isbn=978-0-521-81808-7 | archive-date=2006-05-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512204155/http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hamilton/research/preprints/BurSimSho03.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> · [[Adrastea (moon)|Adrastea]] · [[Amalthea (moon)|Amalthea]]<ref name=Burns_et_al_2004/> · [[Thebe (moon)|Thebe]]<ref name=Burns_et_al_2004/> · [[Io (moon)|Io]] · [[Europa (moon)|Europa]] · [[Ganymede (moon)|Ganymede]] · [[Callisto (moon)|Callisto]] |- ! [[Saturn]] | [[Pan (moon)|Pan]] · [[Atlas (moon)|Atlas]] · [[Prometheus (moon)|Prometheus]] · [[Pandora (moon)|Pandora]] · [[Epimetheus (moon)|Epimetheus]] · [[Janus (moon)|Janus]] · [[Mimas (moon)|Mimas]] · [[Enceladus (moon)|Enceladus]]<ref name=Dougherty_Spilker_2018>{{citation | title=Review of Saturn's icy moons following the Cassini mission | last1=Dougherty | first1=Michele K. | last2=Spilker | first2=Linda J. | journal=Reports on Progress in Physics | volume=81 | issue=6 | id=065901 | date=June 2018 | page=065901 | doi=10.1088/1361-6633/aabdfb | pmid=29651989 | bibcode=2018RPPh...81f5901D | hdl=10044/1/63567 | s2cid=4810803 | hdl-access=free }}</ref> · [[Telesto (moon)|Telesto]] · [[Tethys (moon)|Tethys]]<ref name=Dougherty_Spilker_2018/> · [[Calypso (moon)|Calypso]] · [[Dione (moon)|Dione]]<ref name=Dougherty_Spilker_2018/> · [[Rhea (moon)|Rhea]]<ref name=Dougherty_Spilker_2018/> · [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] · [[Iapetus (moon)|Iapetus]]<ref name=Dougherty_Spilker_2018/> |- ! [[Uranus]] | [[Miranda (moon)|Miranda]] · [[Ariel (moon)|Ariel]] · [[Umbriel]] · [[Titania (moon)|Titania]] · [[Oberon (moon)|Oberon]]<ref> {{citation | title=Red material on the large moons of Uranus: Dust from the irregular satellites? | last1=Cartwright | first1=Richard J. | last2=Emery | first2=Joshua P. | last3=Pinilla-Alonso | first3=Noemi | last4=Lucas | first4=Michael P. | last5=Rivkin | first5=Andy S. | last6=Trilling | first6=David E. | display-authors=1 | journal=Icarus | volume=314 | pages=210–231 | date=November 2018 | doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.004 | arxiv=1806.01809 | bibcode=2018Icar..314..210C | s2cid=119243937 }}</ref> |- ! [[Neptune]] | [[Proteus (moon)|Proteus]]<ref>{{citation | title=The Surfaces of Larissa and Proteus | last=Stooke | first=Philip J. | journal=Earth, Moon, and Planets | volume=65 | issue=1 | pages=3–54 | date=January 1994 | doi=10.1007/BF00572198 | bibcode=1994EM&P...65...31S }}</ref> · [[Triton (moon)|Triton]]<ref name=Correia2009>{{citation | title=Secular Evolution of a Satellite by Tidal Effect: Application to Triton | last1=Correia | first1=Alexandre C. M. | journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters | volume=704 | issue=1 | pages=L1–L4 | date=October 2009 | doi=10.1088/0004-637X/704/1/L1 | bibcode=2009ApJ...704L...1C | arxiv=0909.4210 | s2cid=15378780 | postscript=. }}</ref> |- ! [[Pluto]] | [[Charon (moon)|Charon]] (mutually locked)<ref name=Michaely2017/> |- ! [[Eris (dwarf planet)|Eris]] | [[Dysnomia (moon)|Dysnomia]] (mutually locked)<ref name="Szakats2022">{{cite journal |display-authors = etal |first1 = R. |last1 = Szakáts |first2 = Cs. |last2 = Kiss |first3 = J. L. |last3 = Ortiz |first4 = N. |last4 = Morales |first5 = A. |last5 = Pál |first6 = T. G. |last6 = Müller |title = Tidally locked rotation of the dwarf planet (136199) Eris discovered from long-term ground based and space photometry |journal = Astronomy & Astrophysics |year = 2023 |volume = L3 |page = 669 |doi = 10.1051/0004-6361/202245234 |arxiv = 2211.07987 |bibcode = 2023A&A...669L...3S |s2cid = 253522934 }}</ref> |}
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