Timeline for Are there planets that do not rotate on their axis?
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| Oct 5, 2011 at 21:00 | answer | added | Keith Thompson | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 20, 2011 at 16:52 | answer | added | Alan Rominger | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 19, 2011 at 17:25 | answer | added | Larry Gritz | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 18, 2011 at 18:08 | vote | accept | JYelton | ||
| Sep 17, 2011 at 22:10 | comment | added | Ross Millikan | If you think about the phase space that truly zero rotation represents, you will probably convince yourself that all planets rotate at some rate greater than zero. This does not prohibit planets rotating quite slowly. | |
| Sep 17, 2011 at 8:57 | comment | added | JYelton | I suppose a tidally locked planet would appear not not rotate from the perspective of the center of its orbit, but as Larian says it is rotating, just at the same period as its orbit. I am referring only to the planet's axis, from the perspective of the planet only. | |
| Sep 17, 2011 at 5:42 | comment | added | Jus12 | I still don't understand what it means for something to "not rotate". Nor rotate relative to what frame of reference? The stars in the background are actually moving. | |
| Sep 17, 2011 at 2:13 | answer | added | Larian LeQuella | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 17, 2011 at 1:17 | history | asked | JYelton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |