Answer by Keith Thompson for Are there planets that do not rotate on their axis?
A tidally locked body like the Moon of course does rotate; it just rotates at the same rate as its revolution around the primary. Tidal locking occurs because the mass of the Moon is not uniformly...
View ArticleAnswer by Alan Rominger for Are there planets that do not rotate on their axis?
Like the other answers have pointed out, any collapsing matter forming a planet will always have some amount of angular momentum upon formation. I will add one thing - that it is possible for a planet...
View ArticleAnswer by Larry Gritz for Are there planets that do not rotate on their axis?
Will or will not rotate relative to what?It's extremely unlikely that the protoplanet could somehow have exactly zero angular momentum, so it will certainly be rotating. And even if it could form, you...
View ArticleAnswer by Larian LeQuella for Are there planets that do not rotate on their...
Given the rather large volume of the universe, I suppose it's possible. Not as an initial condition as far as I can tell though because of the conservation of angular momentum. However, given the right...
View ArticleAre there planets that do not rotate on their axis?
I was reading a thread about how a pendulum would be affected if the Earth did not rotate and Larian's answer made me wonder if all planets rotate necessarily due to physics.So that's the question: is...
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