How many planets in our solar system rotate on their axis as they orbit the sun?


Question:
How many planets tilt on their axis in a fashion similar to the earth during their orbit of the sun?

Answer:
First part of your question-----all of them. All planets rotate on their axes.

Second part-----The axial tilts vary from 3 degrees (Jupiter), through Earth(23 1/2 degrees.)All are fairly close to Earth's except Uranus, which "lies on its side" so to speak, and rotates "up and down" instead of East and West.
All of them?

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You are looking for the number which is labeled "inclination of axis". They all tilt to a greater or lesser degree than the earth.
Dude, all of them.

Most of them spin in the same direction, like Earth. Uranus and Venus spin backwards.
All of the planets in our Solar System rotate about their axis as they orbit the Sun. Almost all of them have a definite tilt to their axis in relation to the Sun. I think that Pluto (planet?) is the exception.
All 8 of them turn on their axis. They're all tilted at different angles relative to the sun...Uranus is at the largest angle...with it's axis almost parallel to the plane of the solar system.
All but Venus, which rotates backwards, and Uranus, which goes top to bottom.
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