2007-05-29 06:49:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
If this is some high school test, the answer they are looking for is probably Mercury, even though it is the wrong answer. Mercury has been measured as rotating slowly, preventing the "one side bakes, one side freezes" scenario.
2007-05-29 07:24:12 · answer #1 · answered by Carl M 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mercury has really long days and nights, but not always day/night. Uranus rotates on its side, but has sun on every part at some point.
2007-05-29 14:04:18 · answer #2 · answered by Dan K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well technically the Earth does, its just the sides change continuously as the Earth spins but one side is always night while the other is always day.
2007-05-29 13:53:54 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no such planet in our solar system. It used to be thought that Mercury did this, but that was disproved in 1965 by radar studies.
2007-05-29 14:17:26 · answer #4 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I remember reading in the past few weeks about one of the new exoplanets. It appears that its orbit is in sink with its rotation so that one side remains in perpetual darkness. Try searching the archives on www.physorg.com.
2007-05-29 14:14:05 · answer #5 · answered by Dustin S 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
mercury.
mercury orbits the sun with the same period is mercury rotates on its axis. that means the same side is always facing the sun.
our moon is like that. that's why we always see the same side of the moon.
2007-05-29 13:55:40 · answer #6 · answered by ed the ash 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The only spsce object that this person knows that fits your description is our moon, but there must be billions out there.
2007-05-29 13:56:24 · answer #7 · answered by Mister2-15-2 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
mercury is the answer...
2007-05-29 14:12:28 · answer #8 · answered by sum 1 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋