Space/Science — HabitableZone

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There's evidence it's in a resonance...

...that and it has more rock than most of the other ones. Thus more radioactives and more resiliance for creating tidal friction. A perfectly fluid sphere - like a Gas Giant - deforms too perfectly to produce heat due to tidal deformation. Thus too much ice means less heat.

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