Why is Venus the only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise?
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Answer:
It is likely that the rest of the solar system formed from a cloud of dust all rotating in one direction but Venus was "captured" from a different system when it was passing by.
Without looking up the answer, I recall reading that one possibility is that it got struck by a big asteroid or something at some point which caused it to reverse it's direction of rotation.
i wonder.. maybe thts the way it is.
u kno the queations "why is venus the only planet tht rotates clockwise" and the question "why is venus the only planet tht does not rotate anticlockwise" mean different. hope you get answers for both
During its formative phase, it was probably impacted by a large body at such an almost tangential location and high enough speed to reverse the rotation of the entire new planet thus formed, somewhat similarly to the way the proto-Earth was impacted by a Mars mass body, or larger, only this time, on the other side of the proto-Venus.
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