Counter clockwise rotation of planets?

In article , Bill C.
wrote:

Phyloe,

My coffee cup and I think you're absolutely right. We're mostly Northern
Hemispherers making up the rules of the world. Its kind of natural when
everyone around you has the same bias to see it as a principle.

Bill C.

"Phyloe" wrote in message
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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.

When I included our galaxy,I was using all of the artists' concepts
showing what our galaxy might look like if viewed from above and where
we are located in it.I know we see it from the edge.I also know our
galaxy is considered to be a spiral one.So can you tell me how an
astronomer can determine the shape of our own galaxy froom an edge on
view.Thanks,Bill.

Bill Duncan wrote:

When I included our galaxy,I was using all of the artists' concepts
showing what our galaxy might look like if viewed from above and where
we are located in it.I know we see it from the edge.I also know our
galaxy is considered to be a spiral one.So can you tell me how an
astronomer can determine the shape of our own galaxy froom an edge on
view.Thanks,Bill.

Mainly by mapping stars. Different kinds of objects occur in
different distributions in space, allowing astronomers to trace out
various features of the galaxy. The spiral arms are characterized by
young "Population I" stars, galactic star clusters, and diffuse
nebulae (bright and dark), so when these objects are plotted --
somewhat tricky because the distances to most of them can only be
estimated -- the positions of the arms, at least in our quadrant of
the galaxy, can be mapped out. The centre of the galaxy is obstructed
from our view, but instruments capable of imaging radio and infrared
frequencies that pass through the intervening dust and gas can
provide a picture of the hub.

See http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html.

--
Odysseus

Bill Duncan wrote:

When I included our galaxy,I was using all of the artists' concepts
showing what our galaxy might look like if viewed from above and where
we are located in it.I know we see it from the edge.I also know our
galaxy is considered to be a spiral one.So can you tell me how an
astronomer can determine the shape of our own galaxy froom an edge on
view.Thanks,Bill.

Mainly by mapping stars. Different kinds of objects occur in
different distributions in space, allowing astronomers to trace out
various features of the galaxy. The spiral arms are characterized by
young "Population I" stars, galactic star clusters, and diffuse
nebulae (bright and dark), so when these objects are plotted --
somewhat tricky because the distances to most of them can only be
estimated -- the positions of the arms, at least in our quadrant of
the galaxy, can be mapped out. The centre of the galaxy is obstructed
from our view, but instruments capable of imaging radio and infrared
frequencies that pass through the intervening dust and gas can
provide a picture of the hub.

See http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html.

--
Odysseus

In the explanation I've read about our Moon's tidal lock, it was said the
moon, being not solid at its core, developed a bulge at its edge closest to
the earth, and the eccentricity of that spinning leading edge caused the
moon to slow over time until its spin was locked with that its monthly
rotation period around the earth.

Now the thing that makes Venus unique that I know about, besides its close
size and spin roughly equal to our year is that it is the hottest planet due
to its high gas atmosphere trapping the heat. That being the case, I'm
wondering if that could mean its liquid center has cooled much more cooly
than either the earth or smaller mercury, hence its individual ability to
lock with the sun. If that's what happened.

Here I sit, ready for the fatal bolts of logic and higher learning!

Bill C.

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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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of
void"
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In the explanation I've read about our Moon's tidal lock, it was said the
moon, being not solid at its core, developed a bulge at its edge closest to
the earth, and the eccentricity of that spinning leading edge caused the
moon to slow over time until its spin was locked with that its monthly
rotation period around the earth.

Now the thing that makes Venus unique that I know about, besides its close
size and spin roughly equal to our year is that it is the hottest planet due
to its high gas atmosphere trapping the heat. That being the case, I'm
wondering if that could mean its liquid center has cooled much more cooly
than either the earth or smaller mercury, hence its individual ability to
lock with the sun. If that's what happened.

Here I sit, ready for the fatal bolts of logic and higher learning!

Bill C.

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"Llanzlan Klazmon The 15th" wrote in message
7.6...
Bill Duncan wrote in
et:

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.
--
"Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles
of
void"
Remove spam and invalid from address to reply.

In article , Odysseus
wrote:

Bill Duncan wrote:

When I included our galaxy,I was using all of the artists' concepts
showing what our galaxy might look like if viewed from above and where
we are located in it.I know we see it from the edge.I also know our
galaxy is considered to be a spiral one.So can you tell me how an
astronomer can determine the shape of our own galaxy froom an edge on
view.Thanks,Bill.

Mainly by mapping stars. Different kinds of objects occur in
different distributions in space, allowing astronomers to trace out
various features of the galaxy. The spiral arms are characterized by
young "Population I" stars, galactic star clusters, and diffuse
nebulae (bright and dark), so when these objects are plotted --
somewhat tricky because the distances to most of them can only be
estimated -- the positions of the arms, at least in our quadrant of
the galaxy, can be mapped out. The centre of the galaxy is obstructed
from our view, but instruments capable of imaging radio and infrared
frequencies that pass through the intervening dust and gas can
provide a picture of the hub.

See http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html.

I want to thank everyone for their input.Bill.

In article , Odysseus
wrote:

Bill Duncan wrote:

When I included our galaxy,I was using all of the artists' concepts
showing what our galaxy might look like if viewed from above and where
we are located in it.I know we see it from the edge.I also know our
galaxy is considered to be a spiral one.So can you tell me how an
astronomer can determine the shape of our own galaxy froom an edge on
view.Thanks,Bill.

Mainly by mapping stars. Different kinds of objects occur in
different distributions in space, allowing astronomers to trace out
various features of the galaxy. The spiral arms are characterized by
young "Population I" stars, galactic star clusters, and diffuse
nebulae (bright and dark), so when these objects are plotted --
somewhat tricky because the distances to most of them can only be
estimated -- the positions of the arms, at least in our quadrant of
the galaxy, can be mapped out. The centre of the galaxy is obstructed
from our view, but instruments capable of imaging radio and infrared
frequencies that pass through the intervening dust and gas can
provide a picture of the hub.

See http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/5000lys.html.

I want to thank everyone for their input.Bill.

Is our universe rifght handed or left handed ? Bert

Is our universe rifght handed or left handed ? Bert

"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message...
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Is our universe rifght handed or left handed ? Bert

Bert, since our Universe appears to have vastly more matter
in it than antimatter, it is called "right-handed." A universe
that is mostly antimatter would be "left-handed."

(apologies to Gentle Southpaw Readers everywhere!)

happy days and...
starry starry nights!

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Are you burning with desire?
If no dream, you have no steam
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