> 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 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
