{"id":3926510,"date":"2026-06-15T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/venus-strange-rotation-was-likely-triggered-by-a-high-velocity-moon-sized-impactor\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:03:40","slug":"venus-strange-rotation-was-likely-triggered-by-a-high-velocity-moon-sized-impactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/venus-strange-rotation-was-likely-triggered-by-a-high-velocity-moon-sized-impactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus&#8217; strange rotation was likely triggered by a high-velocity, moon-sized impactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Venus&#8217; bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new paper presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, the authors argue that their models indicate a high-angle, moon-sized, high-velocity impactor likely triggered Venus&#8217; strange 248-day rotation. And it probably happened within the first 50 million years of Venus&#8217; formation.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-venus-strange-rotation-triggered-high.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus&#8217; bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new paper presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, the authors argue that their models indicate a high-angle, moon-sized, high-velocity impactor likely triggered Venus&#8217; strange 248-day rotation. And it probably happened within the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}