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Do planets near the sun spin faster or slower than planets away from the sun?
Planets closer to the sun typically spin faster than planets farther away. This is due to the conservation of angular momentum - as the planets formed from the protoplanetary disk, gravitational forces caused them to spin faster as they moved closer to the sun.
What are the 2 planets that spin backwards?
Venus and Uranus are the two planets that spin backwards compared to the majority of the planets in our solar system. Venus rotates in the opposite direction to its orbit around the Sun, while Uranus is tilted on its side, causing its rotational axis to be nearly parallel to its orbit.
Does the sun orbit the planets or do the planets orbit the sun?
The planets orbit the sun. The sun is at the center of our solar system and exerts a gravitational pull that keeps the planets in orbit around it.
What is meant by the rotation of planets?
The rotation of planets refers to the spinning motion of a planet around its own axis. This rotational motion determines the length of a day on the planet and can influence its weather patterns and magnetic field. Most planets in our solar system rotate counterclockwise, but Venus and Uranus rotate clockwise.
What keeps the planets and sun in orbit?
The question probably means "What keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun?" The answer to that is : The Sun's gravitational attraction provides the force needed to keep the planets in orbit. This force doesn't pull the planets any closer to the Sun, but it stops the planets moving away (at a tangent to their orbits) due to their own velocities.
Why does the sun spin on it's own axis?
Because It Has To Spin Like Planets Do
What do the Sun and planets spin around?
The center of the galaxy.
Do all planets spin as they travel around the sun?
no
Why do planets and the sun spin?
Because there's nothing stopping them spinning.
Is it possible for a planet to have both planetary spin and orbital motion?
All planets spin on their axes as well as orbiting the Sun.
Does the sun spin as it moves across the sky?
The sun doesn't move across the night sky but the earth and all planets of the sky do.when we circle around the sun it just looks like it movesI.F
Is Earth the only planet that turns?
no, all planets spin and all planets in our solar system revolve around the sun.
What makes the earth spin?
The spin of the Earth is residual from the formation of the solar system. The original "whirlpools" of matter started to spin as they orbited the sun due to the Coriolis force acting on them. This caused them to spin around the planets. his spin stayed after the planets firmed up into discrete balls
What do you call the sun and the planets that spin around it?
It is called the solar system, and includes the Sun, planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets. It extends much farther than the farthest planets, but not as far as the other nearby stars.
Why do all the planets go around the sun in the same direction and why do planet line in a flat plane?
Because the sun is responsible for everything in the Solar system the planets lie on the suns equatorial line and still spin like they did before the planets formed.All the planets go around the sun the same way and lie on a relatively flat plane because of gravity. This is just a theory.
What makes the earth round?
The spin of the Earth is residual from the formation of the solar system. The original "whirlpools" of matter started to spin as they orbited the sun due to the Coriolis force acting on them. This caused them to spin around the planets. his spin stayed after the planets firmed up into discrete balls
How did the gas cloud or nebulae form the sun and the planets?
it got hotter and begun to spin so fast.
