Why Don't Planets Spin the Same Way?
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Why don’t all planets spin the same way? Some planets spin backwards, they break rules. How do planetary rotation works? From above the Sun’s north pole, the solar system looks strangely ordered. The planets orbit in the same direction, most of them spin in the same direction, and everything seems to follow one ancient rule left over from the spinning disk that formed the Sun and planets. What's angular momentum? But then Venus breaks the pattern. It spins backward. Uranus breaks it even harder, lying almost completely on its side as it rolls around the Sun. In this video, we explore why planets should have inherited the same spin from the early solar system, how angular momentum shaped the planets, and how violent collisions in the young solar system may have tilted, slowed, or even reversed entire worlds. We’ll look at Venus, Uranus, Earth’s Moon-forming impact, Jupiter’s extreme rotation, Saturn’s strange tilt, and even exoplanets like WASP-17b that orbit their stars backward. A
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