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Do all the planets rotate from west to east (as it were) ?

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Do all the planets rotate from west to east (as it were) ?

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No, they don’t. Venus revolves in retrograde, so the Sun rises in the West on Venus. Also, Uranus has an axis that is inclined just over 90 degrees to the ecliptic, so it basically tumbles sideways over itself. What little characteristic day and night behavior is observed doest include the Sun rising in the West, but much of the planet experiences “days” and “nights” that are governed only by the axial tilt, like at the extremities of Earth’s poles where day and night each last for six months. The planets mostly rotate in the same direction because they retain the initial motion of the solar nebula from which developed the Sun and everything orbiting it. However, collisions in the early Solar System caused drastic changes in the motion of a few of these bodies.

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