Can someone answer my questions about the planets?

by Arora on January 12, 2013 in Questions with 2 Comments

Question by Anne S: Can someone answer my questions about the planets?
Would someone answer my science questions?

1. Is the orbits of all planets in a COUNTERCLOCKWISE direction?

2. Is it Pluto’s, Venus’s, and Uranus’s orbit OR rotation move in a counterclockwise direction?

3. Can “orbit” and “rotation” mean the same thing? Can “orbit” refer to “rotation” and vice versa?

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2 Comments on "Can someone answer my questions about the planets?"

  1. Someone
    says:
    January 12, 2013 at 10:10 am

    Sorry, I can’t answer your questions. I think orbit is the same as rotation, but rotation isnt the same as orbit, if you get what I mean.

    Orbital things rotate, but just because something rotates doesn’t mean it’s in an orbit. I think.

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  2. jrcg says:
    January 12, 2013 at 9:12 am

    Q1: It depends on what you mean by clockwise. Imagine, you might be looking ‘down’ on the Solar System, or looking ‘up’ at it from (ahem) ‘below’.

    It is essentially meaningless to ask if you do not give a position from which you are looking.

    But all of the planets do orbit in the same sense, ie, they go the same way around the Sun.

    Q2: Well, venus rotates on its axis in a different direction to most of the planets. Uranus’ rotation state is pretty unusual anyway – but it is still prograde.

    Q3: No. An orbit can be an arbitrary path (hyperbolic, perturbed, etc), rotation suggests a closed path.

    Neither can rotation be used in place of rotation.

    http://www.enotes.com/earth-science/revolution-rotation

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