> From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

> Something I read before: 
>  
> A serious problem with Venus is the lack of a decent 
> Moon. This makes Venus's rotational angular momentum 
> precess wildely, going to flat spin, spin backwards, 
> or even no spin at all, due to orbit-spin coupling 
> [the orbital angular momentum is much bigger than 
> the rotational angular momentum, so a tiny transfer 
> from one to the other causes a disaster in spin] 
>  
> BTW, Mars has the same problem. 

That sounds very interesting.  Any chance of restating that in words a
non-rocket scientist could understand?  :-)

 - jmh
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