Timeline for To what extent do the spin of smaller celestial bodies reflect the spin of the larger system’s of which they are a part?
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| Jun 29, 2018 at 22:44 | comment | added | rob | The official IAU name of Earth's natural satellite is not "Luna"; it's "the Moon." | |
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| May 30, 2018 at 4:11 | answer | added | Rob | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 2:46 | comment | added | eshaya | There is no local star cluster. Perhaps some day we will identify other stars that formed in the now dissolved stellar cluster that the Sun formed in. The Local Group of galaxies has the MW and M31 headed directly at each other, so no orbital energy there. Perhaps some angular momentum in the dwarf galaxies or the Vast Plane of Galaxies around M31. | |
| Feb 12, 2018 at 16:01 | comment | added | Jack R. Woods | I believe you are right about solar system/ milky way rotation. It is surprisingly difficult to google this answer. What can be found is that the universe is believed to be isotropic (which includes spin direction). My guess would be that at a certain scale local "eddies" or gravitational interactions will overcome the general trend and collisions (not always direct ones) can cause exceptions (ie, Venus and Uranus). | |
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| Feb 1, 2018 at 22:55 | history | asked | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |