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Richard D
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Venus' rotation? How we know a planet orbiting very close to it's star is tidally locked to the star, and Mercury isn't tidally locked to the Sun, because it's orbit is eccentric, it's distance from the Sun changes, so does it's speed around the Sun, we also know Venus however takes 224 days to go around the Sun and a bit surprisingly, it takes 243 days to rotate once. And it rotates backwards. How most of us agree with the theory that a massive spheric asteroid struck Venus at such a steep angle, the impact of the massive object caused Venus to rotate backwards... who agrees that Venus was actually knocked on it's axis and now Venus actually rotates the right way, but upsidedown and that's why it appears to rotate backwards? And most of all, who agrees that before that happened, Venus was tidally locked to the Sun, and now that it 'suspectingly' rotates backwards, the gravity of the Sun is actually trying to make Venus tidally locked to the Sun by slowing it's axis to zero speed and then cause Venus' axis to apparently rotate the right way and that's why right now it takes longer to rotate once than orbit the Sun once? Because the Sun's gravity is slowing Venus' axis to zero speed and cause it to apparently rotate the right way again and eventually, it will apparently rotate the right way at a rate of 1 rotation per orbit? 1 cool thing that will happen eventually, but not in our life time is before Venus' axis slows to zero speed, it will be rotating at a rate of less than 1 rotation per 1,000 years! Agree?? I like my imagination about what could seriously happen. A year will eventually be precisely 365 days long; North America and Asia will connect; 24 mile wide Phobos will collide with Mars forming an oval crater over 500 miles long...