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To: Pikachu_Dad
Our winds are not as dramatic because our planet rotates.

Yes, but it is wrong to say Venus doesn't rotate. Because if it didn't rotate the entire circumference would in time receive direct sunlight as the planet orbited the sun.

Below: imagine the blue earth in the center is the sun, and the gray moon is Venus. Red and green dots indicate a fixed position on the planet (Venus).

Image result for moon earth orbit gif

57 posted on 12/03/2018 8:12:29 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Synchronous rotation: The moon orbit and rotation period are the same. Which is why we always see the same side of the moon. So relative to the earth, the moon has no rotation.

Venus is the essentially the orbitally same with respect to the sun.

So one side of Venus is ‘always’ being heated. The other side is ‘always’ in night. Relative to the sun, there is no rotation of Venus.

So for climate purposes ... this is very, very bad !

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“The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still. Scientists call this synchronous rotation.”


59 posted on 12/03/2018 12:05:57 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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