Because of the gravity from Saturn pulling on the surface of it's moon, it causes friction within its' soil and heats it up.
if the universe is 13 BYO, why is saturn's moon still hot? it should have cooled by now
@sentinal-5, i`m bad with english, so i cant understand all, what you writting. Sorry :c :c :c
you must also take into account that Joey22 has not included Pluto in his/her calculation, subtracting 2,372km from the total i had, and making even more room for the planets to fit inside an orbit lower than the one i used.
(oh, and i used the averages. because statistically speaking, the orbital altitude of the moon is the average distance from its centre of mass to the barycentre of rotation between it and earth, and whenever you quote statistics, you always calculate them statistically, otherwise they're not statistics. some of the time the moon is a little too close to fit them yes, some of the time it's really far and there is loads of room. so on average it fits them comfortably. wouldn't you agree?
why didn't you search for the diameters instead? the longer distance reduces the severity of any error due to rounding and instrumental imperfections. when you multiply the radius by two you also double any errors.
I used the average orbital altitude of the moon about the barycentre of rotation and the average diameter of each of the planets. there is a 2,612km difference. that is to say the orbit of the moon is 2,612 higher than the combined average diameters of all the major planets in our solar system excluding earth. i did not include saturn's rings or any dwarf planets other than pluto and i assumed all the planets were touching.
I checked back in. Now, I don't see any problems. Thank you, Joey. My sanity is saved.