Newfound Planet Orbits Backward

Space.com ^ | Aug 12, 2009 | Jeanna Bryner and Robert Roy Britt

[K-oneTexas]

Not till Pluto is reinstated!

[mware]

The star and its planet, WASP-17, are about 1,000 light-years away..."

That is racist

[SunkenCiv]

not really related, but this is another space wasp:

Have a Hot Time on WASP-12b
Sky & Telescope | Monday, December 22, 2008 | Kelly Beatty
Posted on 12/28/2008 3:21:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2155321/posts

[dalereed]

Name the planet obama!

Hope that since it’s going the wrong way on a one way street it gets taken out!

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[dragnet2]

Read it again.

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[Judith Anne]

I thought there was a planet in OUR solar system that had a retrograde orbit. Mars? Venus?

[wendy1946]

Venus doesn't orbit backwards but it spins backwards, same basic sort of thing. Bob Bass once noted that the retrograde spin could not be primordial and had to have arisen via interaction with another planet, and that the curious phase lock between Venus and Earth pretty much tells you which other planet that was.

[latina4dubya]

Uranus has an axis that rotates sideways... is that what you were thinking of?

[Judith Anne]

Thanks Wendy. I read about it years ago in Velikovsky, to be honest, but you know how memory is...

[Judith Anne]

Not the one I had in mind, but so many answers are possible to that one.....;-D

[SunkenCiv]

That’s right. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, missed yours, looks like it’s been answered though. :’) I’ll let things hang out a little and suggest that any / some undiscovered unknown outer planets move in retrograde.