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I know how it works! but why and if its it's common?
Not many people know about the tidal locking Venus has with the Earth and I have to admit that this is a VERY strange anomaly.
Orbital characteristics
Aphelion 108,942,109 km
0.728 231 28 AU
Perihelion 107,476,259 km
0.718 432 70 AU
Semi-major axis 108,208,930 km
0.723 332 AU
Eccentricity 0.006 8
Orbital period 224.700 69 day
0.615 197 0 yr
Synodic period 583.92 days
Average orbital speed 35.02 km/s
Inclination 3.394 71° to Ecliptic
3.86° to Sun’s equator
2.19° to Invariable plane
Longitude of ascending node 76.670 69°
Argument of perihelion 54.852 29°
Satellites None
Physical characteristics
Mean radius 6,051.8 ± 1.0 km[3]
0.949 9 Earths
Flattening < 0.000 2[3]
Surface area 4.60 × 108 km²
0.902 Earths
Volume 9.38 × 1011 km³
0.857 Earths
Mass 4.868 5 × 1024 kg
0.815 Earths
Mean density 5.204 g/cm³
Equatorial surface gravity 8.87 m/s2
0.904 g
Escape velocity 10.46 km/s
Sidereal rotation
period 243.018 5 day
Equatorial rotation velocity 6.52 km/h (1.81 m/s)
Axial tilt 177.3°
Equatorial rotation velocity 1,674.4 km/h (465.1 m/s)
Axial tilt 23.439281°
Originally posted by LAUGHING-CAT
reply to post by weedwhacker
Thanks for the attribution, I can get simpler, but as my employer says, "Mike, If you treat them like children, they will be children".
Anyway, that's how I finally "got it".
Originally posted by Bspiracy
As time goes by, the spinning slows down and it finally stops. Just like if you sit a bike upside down, spin the wheel and when it comes ALMOST to a rest, the wheel will most likely rotate back and forth real slow a few times.
The moon did this for a long time... or did it ?
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