"Bill C." wrote in message
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"Llanzlan Klazmon The 15th" wrote in message
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Bill Duncan wrote in
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The original intrinsic angular
momentum of Venus was lost due to tidal locking and its' current
situation
may be a resonance effect.

Do we know what it tidal locked with? The sun?

I'm also curious. Isn't tidal locking to the Sun a bit unreasonable at the
distance Venus is? Let's leave Earth alone because it also has another tidal
companion and let's take our neighbor. Why wasn't Mars, some 2 times farther
from the Sun than Venus also slowed down drastically?
I'm more inclined to say that a large impact during Venusian history
severely disrupted its rotational axis and period, but I'm no expert at
this.
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