Orbit and Rotation of Venus
Venus has a rather unusual motion:
orbit radius ~ 0.7 AU
orbit period: ~ 0.6 years
[check (0.615)
2
/(0.723)
3
= 1.00]
rotation period: ~0.66 years,
retrograde
.
that is, it hardly rotates at all.
almost everything else in the solar system rotates prograde.
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Davison E. Soper, Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403 USA soper@bovine.uoregon.edu
