2007-05-28 10:14:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Venus rotates clockwise in "retrograde" rotation. The question of how Venus came to have a slow, retrograde rotation was a major puzzle for scientists when the planet's rotation period was first measured. When it formed from the solar nebula, Venus would have had a much faster, prograde rotation, but calculations show that over billions of years, tidal effects on its dense atmosphere could have slowed down its initial rotation to the value seen today.[22][23]
2007-05-28 10:25:58 · answer #1 · answered by Specialist McKay 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. It orbits the Sun in the same direction as all the other planets. It spins on its axis very slowly in the opposite direction though.
2007-05-28 17:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Venus does not orbit the sun backward, it spins in retrograde motion on it's axis, which means it spins backward, and the sun would rise in the west and set in the east. It orbits around the sun in the same direction as all the other planets though.
2007-05-28 17:22:06 · answer #3 · answered by North_Star 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Most likely due to a large impact that spun venus around the other direction. Uranus is tilted out of the plane for that same reason.
2007-05-28 17:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't. All the planets orbit the sun in the same direction.
2007-05-28 17:24:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
i dont think it does maybe your mistaken
2007-05-28 19:06:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just ornery?
2007-05-28 17:21:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
It doesn't. Why do you think it does?
2007-05-28 17:28:13 · answer #8 · answered by Renaissance Man 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋