Timeline for Why do (most of) the planets rotate counterclockwise, i.e. the same way the Sun does?
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| Feb 27 at 6:30 | comment | added | ProfRob | This explanation probably applies to small planetesimals. Other authors claim that the terrestrial planet spins are mainly affected by the final few big collisions and are essentially random. See the big review by Raymond etal. (2013) and papers by Kokubo et al. | |
| Feb 16, 2021 at 4:15 | history | answered | Connor Garcia♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |