If a small planetoid in a disk of debris is orbiting around or spiraling in on the Sun, the debris outside of it will be going slower than the planetoid and the debris inside the planetoid will be going faster. As the debris is drawn to the planetoid by gravity, will the incoming debris result in a planet that spins clockwise or counterclockwise and why? I don't have the Physics to evaluate the effects of the Sun's gravity pulling one way on the debris and the planetoid's pulling the other. We're looking down on the system from above of course.
I know that if the whole disk has the same angular velocity that the planet will end up spinning counterclockwise like we do.
2007-09-18
15:44:46
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