(March 25, 2019 at 5:05 pm)chimp3 Wrote:(March 25, 2019 at 9:01 am)Yonadav Wrote: I always wonder who writes these articles and how much they understand about the subject they are writing about. The writer talks about Uranus not spinning the same as the other planets in the solar system, as if Uranus is the only one. Venus spins very, very slowly in the opposite direction of most other planets in the solar system. In the freshman astronomy class that I took quite a few years ago, I was taught that the reason for these planets spinning differently than other planets was massive impacts. So I don't see any new information in this article. I'm guessing that the new information is greater certainty about specific details of the impact event itself. In the case of Venus, the impact might have been a real tragedy because Venus might have become an earth-like life bearing world had it not been for the impact.I wonder how much the writer knows about innuendos.
Basically, I'm just saying that I don't like the article because it gives the impression that Uranus is the only planet in the solar system that is spinning oddly because of an impact.
Our outyouendos.
