Why is the planet venus the only planet to rotate around the sun clockwise?
knightie –
I’m sure you would have figured this out soon enough, but only post your topics to one forum. GQ is the right one for this question and if you check there you’ll find that a highly intelligent doper (that would be me!) has added a little to the discussion.
Venus orbits the sun in the same direction as all the other planets. Venus rotates on it’s axis in a retrograde direction from the other planets. It is theorized that a collision or encounter with a large mass early in the formation of the planet caused this retrograde rotation, and may also explain why Venus rotates so slowly about 240 days compared to 24 hours for the Earth. This is not so unusual some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn have retrograde rotations.
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