Saturday 6 January 2024

A renegade moon may have flipped Venus’s spin

 


Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.  

Joel Kontinen

Some astronomers think that Venus rotates in the opposite direction to the other planets in the solar system, and astronomers aren’t sure why – but it may have been caused by the drag of an ancient moon in a backwards orbit. It is called Theia.  

Now, this calls for an ancient moon that may or not   to do the trick. But we do not know if the planet or moon existed,

According to evolutionists, the early solar system was a chaotic place, with rocks hurtling around at extraordinary speeds. Valeri Makarov at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington DC and Alexey Goldin at Teza Techno. logies in Chicago performed a series of’examples

 

Source:

Leah Crane. 2024. A renegade moon may have flipped Venus’s spin | New Scientist 4 January