petrushka.googol Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Venus is retrograde. Why ? Are there any equations that explain the same or any model that describes the anomalous behavior ? Please opine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robittybob1 Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Venus is retrograde. Why ? Are there any equations that explain the same or any model that describes the anomalous behavior ? Please opine. During the last month or so I was listening to the lecture series by Michel van Biezen and he said Venus had been hit by a massive object and completely tipped over. I had previously thought of another way of making the planet reverse its spin, and that was by having a moon spin around it in a retrograde orbit. Once the Moon orbits faster than the planet it can be tidally decelerated until it crashes onto the surface or ripped apart by the forces of gravity when it is closer than the Roche Limit. (However that is said properly) The Roche limit is the minimum distance to which a large satellite can approach its primary body without being torn apart by tidal forces. If satellite and primary are of similar composition, the theoretical limit is about 2 1/2 times the radius of the larger body.Roche Limit abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/roche_limit.html The similar process of tidal deceleration occurs for satellites that have an orbital period that is shorter than the primary's rotational period, or that orbit in a retrograde direction.Tidal acceleration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration Can you see that working? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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