[Dragaera] Fwd: Moon(s) and Tides (was Re: Jhegaala etc.)

[Philip Hart]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Ken Koester wrote:

> also, the orbit is unlikely to be perfectly circular, so you would get 
> seasonally stronger/weaker tides, similar to spring & neap tides (but 
> not as frequent).

I was going to say something skeptical about gradients, but a quick google 
of perihelion and tide shows that there is a noticeable effect on the 
tides due to the slight ellipticity of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
E.g. http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/restles4.html