![]() |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Except for Venus and Uranus,why do the rest of the planets including
the sun and even our own galaxy spin counter clockwise?Thanks,Bill. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
In message , Bill
Duncan writes Except for Venus and Uranus,why do the rest of the planets including the sun and even our own galaxy spin counter clockwise?Thanks,Bill. I think you mean "solar system", not galaxy - we don't know anything about the spin direction of planets and stars other than in our own system - but the likely answer is that the original cloud just happened to be spinning counter-clockwise and so the objects it condensed into did the same. -- "Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of void" Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
In message , Bill
Duncan writes Except for Venus and Uranus,why do the rest of the planets including the sun and even our own galaxy spin counter clockwise?Thanks,Bill. I think you mean "solar system", not galaxy - we don't know anything about the spin direction of planets and stars other than in our own system - but the likely answer is that the original cloud just happened to be spinning counter-clockwise and so the objects it condensed into did the same. -- "Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of void" Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Bill Duncan wrote in
et: Except for Venus and Uranus,why do the rest of the planets including the sun and even our own galaxy spin counter clockwise?Thanks,Bill. The plane of the galaxy is at around 65 degrees to the plane of the solar system so your remarks don't make any sense. However, the rotation of the planets and the Sun will relate to the initial angular momentum of the nebular from which the solar system formed. The original intrinsic angular momentum of Venus was lost due to tidal locking and its' current situation may be a resonance effect. Uranus' unusual tipped over spin axis may have resulted from it forming from a collision of two large bodies. Llanzlan |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Bill Duncan wrote in
et: Except for Venus and Uranus,why do the rest of the planets including the sun and even our own galaxy spin counter clockwise?Thanks,Bill. The plane of the galaxy is at around 65 degrees to the plane of the solar system so your remarks don't make any sense. However, the rotation of the planets and the Sun will relate to the initial angular momentum of the nebular from which the solar system formed. The original intrinsic angular momentum of Venus was lost due to tidal locking and its' current situation may be a resonance effect. Uranus' unusual tipped over spin axis may have resulted from it forming from a collision of two large bodies. Llanzlan |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Doesn't it depend on how you are looking? Take a can of soup. Look at one
end and turn it counter clockwise. While doing this flip the can end for end. You will find the other end spinning clockwise. Phyloe "Bill Duncan" wrote in message et... Except for Venus and Uranus,why do the rest of the planets including the sun and even our own galaxy spin counter clockwise?Thanks,Bill. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Doesn't it depend on how you are looking? Take a can of soup. Look at one
end and turn it counter clockwise. While doing this flip the can end for end. You will find the other end spinning clockwise. Phyloe "Bill Duncan" wrote in message et... Except for Venus and Uranus,why do the rest of the planets including the sun and even our own galaxy spin counter clockwise?Thanks,Bill. |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
The original intrinsic angular
momentum of Venus was lost due to tidal locking and its' current situation may be a resonance effect. Speaking of that, do you know how to calculate the spin-down time, or the 1/e rotation frequency diminution time, for a planet as the result of the tidal drag from a single other body? I've been looking for this equation, but I haven't found it, and I've been using one I put together on assumptions that might not be right. Jerry Abbott |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
The original intrinsic angular
momentum of Venus was lost due to tidal locking and its' current situation may be a resonance effect. Speaking of that, do you know how to calculate the spin-down time, or the 1/e rotation frequency diminution time, for a planet as the result of the tidal drag from a single other body? I've been looking for this equation, but I haven't found it, and I've been using one I put together on assumptions that might not be right. Jerry Abbott |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Uranus' unusual tipped over spin axis may have
resulted from it forming from a collision of two large bodies. Llanzlan Can someone describe a picture for me of how say for example two huge gaseous bodies that collide actually alter each other's spin axis and what not. I understand the huge pressures of gas and that the pressures increase as you go deeper into the planet, but still is it possible to alter the spin axis that much of such a huge gaseous body such as Uranus by another gaseous body? Also just for the hell of it, is there anything in our solar system that could actually go through one of those gaseous planets and I mean like some huge body? I am guessing not and it seems like a stupid question, but here on Earth it just doesn't go hand in hand like that, that a gaseous bodies have strengths of those made of metals and so on. Anyhow carry on and I'll cut my ranting. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Sedna, space probes?, colonies? what's next? | TKalbfus | Policy | 265 | July 13th 04 12:00 AM |
PDF (Planetary Distance Formula) explains DW 2004 / Quaoar and Kuiper Belt | hermesnines | Astronomy Misc | 10 | February 27th 04 02:14 AM |
Incontrovertible Evidence | Cash | Astronomy Misc | 1 | August 24th 03 07:22 PM |
Incontrovertible Evidence | Cash | Amateur Astronomy | 6 | August 24th 03 07:22 PM |