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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.

Nor am I, but I gather that the theory about a large impact has been
joined by the new one, which says there was some sort of interaction
between Venus' atmosphere and the solar wind. On the subject of tidal
effects, there's also the may-be-coincidental relationships between
Venus' orbital and the Earth's year.
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