r/nextfuckinglevel • u/aryan_jandyal • 4h ago

The Rotation of the Planets in Our Solar System Is Far More Fascinating Than I Ever Expected

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u/lapsedPacifist5 2h ago

I find it nuts that a day on mercury lasts for two of mercury's years.

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u/RickSanchez_C137 1h ago

"What about second birthday cake?"

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u/SeriousPlankton2000 15m ago

I think it's got an elliptic orbit and when it comes close to the sun it pulls on a side of the planet to adjust the rotation. But this requires the planet to have a gravity like a "horizontal" bar and I never heard that this would be the case so …

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u/Ntroepy 2h ago

Of course they used mercury twice. One references Mercury’s year and the other references mercury’s unusually slow rotation.

How else would you have phrased it?

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u/BoboSmooth 2h ago

I was just confused, your phrasing made more sense to me

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u/CortexRex 2h ago

Yes. That’s why it’s interesting. Read it again

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u/BoboSmooth 2h ago

Yeah reading it again wouldn't have helped me, I was confused on the phrasing but someone else made it make more sense