Do any other planets besides earth spin on an axis?
2006-08-24 09:21:20 · 6 answers · asked by John T. 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Like, at a diagonal?
2006-08-24 12:10:50 · update #1
All planets, stars, galaxies, etc. rotate or "spin on an axis". In order for any of these objects to be formed, theory says that a cloud of dust and gas had to have started collapsing down and compacting until individual stars or planets form. As part of this collapsing, the cloud starts rotating faster and faster due to conservation of angular momentum. This rotation eventually gets passed along to all objects that are formed from the cloud. Hence, the sun rotates as well as all the planets.
Like it was mentioned before, Saturn has its north pole pointed right at the sun and "rolls" around the sun on it's side. Venus is also unusual because it rotates the 'wrong way'. It rotates opposite all the other planets. This means that something happened to both Saturn and Venus sometime in the early history of the Solar system. What it was that happened we can only speculate, but a very large collision of some sort is the popular idea.
2006-08-24 10:28:01 · answer #1 · answered by astrogeek 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do...additionally Uranus spins on it's side like a rolling ball. This is believed to have been caused by a collision with a large object.
2006-08-24 16:29:18 · answer #2 · answered by young108west 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They all do! At varying speeds. Saturn for example only has a 9 hour day and Venus as a 46 hour day
2006-08-24 16:24:08 · answer #3 · answered by Fire_God_69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They all do (at least in our Solar System).
2006-08-24 16:23:12 · answer #4 · answered by scottie2h2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all of them.
2006-08-24 16:23:06 · answer #5 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep they all do in our solar system that i no of and i'm a fishy:-)
2006-08-24 16:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by drummergurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋