From what I just read, Venus spins clockwise while the other planets spin counterclockwise. Why is this?
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We don’t really know. It’s presumed that it was due to a very large impact event from the early days of the solar system, when things were much more crowded (this same era is why the Moon exists; a planet roughly the size of Mercury formed in the same orbit as Earth and eventually slammed into it).
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