I’ve always wondered why Uranus spins 90 degrees off it’s orbit. I’m thankful for cosmologists in general, and if you answer this I’ll build a little shrine to bless you, or something...
I am not a planetary guy, so I am not certain of any new ideas on this topic. I do believe it is an unsolved problem. The two competing ideas I have seen presented are some spin-orbit resonance with the other gas giant planets combined with outward planet migration or some series of large impacts from other bodies early on in the formation of the solar system.
I think I am the only astrophysicist on this site, as far as I know. So you're probably right :)
thank u clint1877, very cool
Doubt that, the silent majority may include more astrophysicists. Probably all astrophysicists, after all, they are very smart.
Based.
Except most of the astrophysicists I know are somehow simultaneously the smartest and dumbest people I know.
Sir, we are but simple operators tending to our girthy hafnium rods
Ooh I'm going to start using that.
I’ve always wondered why Uranus spins 90 degrees off it’s orbit. I’m thankful for cosmologists in general, and if you answer this I’ll build a little shrine to bless you, or something...
I am not a planetary guy, so I am not certain of any new ideas on this topic. I do believe it is an unsolved problem. The two competing ideas I have seen presented are some spin-orbit resonance with the other gas giant planets combined with outward planet migration or some series of large impacts from other bodies early on in the formation of the solar system.
No matter what, Uranus is different.
We need to send probes immediately to explore Uranus.
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