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To: calenel

“Only Venus spins “backwards”.”

Venus and Uranus spin backwards.


70 posted on 05/26/2022 3:51:02 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

Uranus rotates mostly on its side. I don’t think you can count it either way. Its axis of rotation is more or less in the ecliptic (more so than Earth’s is perpendicular to it, by a factor of three). At one point in Uranus’ year the planet appears to rotate clockwise from the perspective of the Sun, and half a Uranus year later, it is rotating counter-clockwise. At the quarter-year points it is either rotating “up” or rotating “down”.


72 posted on 05/26/2022 4:01:31 PM PDT by calenel (Undo the Coup)
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