Is it true that Saturn rotates Clockwise?
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All the planets in our solar system rotate in the same direction with the exception of Venus which rotates *very* slowly in the opposite direction.  It was theorised that it once suffered a glancing blow from a very large object that reversed its spin.\n\nHmm - by rotate I mean on their own axis - not around the sun, in which case all planets go the same direction.
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The Moon rotates at just the right speed so that it always keeps one face pointed toward the Earth. Almost all moons in the Solar System keep one face pointed toward their planet. \n\nThe moon rises in the east, and sets in the west. It moves from east to west, right? If you think about it, you should realize that much of the moon's apparent motion is due to the spin of the earth. The moon appears to go around the earth about once a day. And, you probably know that the moon actually takes about a month to go around the earth. That's where we get the word "month."\n\nWhy don't you perform a simple observation. Look at the moon, some night, and see where it is with respect to the stars (or with respect to the sun). You don't need to know the stars very well, but you probably want to ignore the planets (Venus, Jupiter, and Mars, mainly, as their motion complicates this observation). Night after night, the moon moves against the background of stars. See if you can tell which way the moon is moving, against the background of stars.\n\nAnother simple observation would be to keep track of when the moon rises (roughly) or sets from night to night. Does it rise later each night, or earlier, or what?\n\nYou will see that the moon moves west to east, fairly rapidly. \nWhich way does the earth spin? Well, the stars, sun, moon, and planets all seem to be moving east to west. So the earth is spinning in the opposite direction, west to east. Hey, the moon is also moving west to east, coincidence? Well, the earth is moving around the sun from west to east. In fact all nine of the planets are moving around the sun from west to east. And, all of the planets, except Uranus (which is lying on its side) and Venus (which is spinning slowly backward), are rotating from west to east. And most of the moons, of the various planets, are orbiting their planets from west to east. And most of the asteroids are orbiting the sun from west to east.\n\nIt's not a coincidence. The Solar System started out as a cloud of dust and gas, and it was rotating from west to east. That's why most of its parts are still rotating and orbiting from west to east.
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Depends on your point of view. If you're hovering above the North pole, the earth rotates counter-clockwise. If you're hovering above the South pole, it rotates clockwise.
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The Scientists don't know yet, so if they don't know we don't know. We can only guess to what it is.\n\n\nScientists said it was unclear whether Saturn's storm was a water-driven system.\n\nIt differs from Earth hurricanes in part because it remains stuck at the pole rather than drifting as such storms do on this planet and because it did not form over a liquid water ocean, with Saturn being a gaseous planet, NASA said.\n\n"It looks like a hurricane, but it doesn't behave like a hurricane," Andrew Ingersoll, a member of Cassini's imaging team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a statement. "Whatever it is, we're going to focus on the eye of this storm and find out why it's there."\n\nFlasar said scientists have more work ahead to understand the Saturn storm.\n\n"I'm hoping that as we puzzle over it, it will become even more exciting as we start to connect the dots in our brains. But right now, the wheels are a little creaky," Flasar said. "We're all arguing with each other about what it might or might not be."
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Some will say the Coriolis force (one of the fictitious forces that we observe because we live in a noninertial rotating frame), and predict that it will swirl clockwise in the southern hemisphere. However, these forces are overcome by all kinds of other geometric effects and residual motion etc. \n\nFor example, fill a sink with a few inches of water, and swirl it with your hand, either clockwise or anticlockwise. Wait for a few minutes until you are sure that the water is still. Then carefully drop in a drop or two of food coloring and watch. The water will remain in motion for hours from your stirring. When you remove the stopper, you can create a bias towards an anticlockwise or clockwise drain vortex. The shape of the drain can also influence the direction of this fluid motion. \n\nThe flushing of a toilet is a very vigorous event, and so it will have a large effect on the direction of fluid motion, along with many other factors.
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If you are on the same planet that I am, yes!\n\nThe earth rotates counterclockwise on its axis. Therefore the sun will always "rise" in the east. The reason I put rise in quotes...b/c the sun doesn't actually rise. It is from our perspective that it seems to rise.\n\nThe only way you will see the sun rise in the west...\n1. you are on Venus (clockwise rotation)\n2. a major astroid strikes earth & changes earth's rotation so that it goes clockwise. But the problem here is that your chances of still being around to see it is nil.\n\nAlso, all the planets in our solar system have a counterclockwise revolution path around the sun.
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No.  The reason is a bit complex for someone not already familiar with the conservation of rotational inertia.  But the short answer is that Jupiter is probably moving very, very slowly away from the Sun.  Our moon is moving very, very slowly away from the Earth.  Each body that has satellites has what is called a "Roche limit".  Jupiter and Earth would be outside of the Sun's Roche limit so they will move slowly farther away.  Our moon is outside Earth's Roche limit and will move slowly farther away.   Mars is pretty cool.  Mars has 2 very small moons.  One, Diemos, is farther away from Mars and outside its Roche limit.  It will also continue to move farther away ever so slowly.  But the other moon, Phobos, is a bit closer and inside of Mars' Roche limit.  It will ever so slowly move closer to Mars until it spirals down and eventually collides.  COOL, huh?
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Water will spin in water ever way it is induced to spin.\nThe coriolis is effect is real, but it is extreamly weak and does not play a role in the way that water will flow down a drain or out of a toilet.  Water will spin whatever was it is induced to by the toilet nozzles pushing it.\nIt is not true that all toilets in the norther hemisphere spin one way and toilets in the southern hemisphere spin the other direction.
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It's the circle of the universe. counter clockwise motion. and number seven is a special number to God. \n\n-in the solar system planets go counter clockwise motion around the sun. http://www.calcuttahams.com/images/Solar_System.jpg\n-electronics moves around its nucleus in counter clockwise movement.\n-the way we go around the Kaaba (black house). is the same way of how electronics and planets moves around its nucleus. \n-also Tornado and Hurricans moves in the same direction when it starts as counter clockwise motion. \n\nthis movement motion has to do with life circle. and it's commanded by God to do it like this.
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First I want to clear up that clockwise is really a 2-dimensional description of rotation, and planet rotation can be viewed in 3D so you can't really describe planet rotation as clockwise or counterclockwise. If you define an "up" and a "down" for the solar system, and then say "when viewed from above the solar system rotates counterclockwise", then the "anticlockwise" description works. For my answer we will assume you have done all this and that the solar system rotates counterclockwise, so there is no confusion from the wording of the question.\n\nThe reason the solar system rotates counterclockwise has to do with the way the gas clouds that created the solar system collided. They didn't collide head on. Think of cars travelling in opposite direction down an interstate hitting each other not quite head on (i.e. the left headlights of both cars smack together). When they do this they will spin out sideways - they will effectively rotate around each other (in North America with the cars driving on the right side of the road, they will rotate counterclockwise when viewed from above if they collide like this). The gas clouds did the same thing and their collision exceeded the critical density needed for gravity to take over and start forming the solar system, and as this matter collapsed to form the sun and planets, the rotation sped up. The rotation these gas clouds got from their collision gave momentum to the rotation of most matter in the solar system; the sun rotates in the same direction as those clouds did when they collided and so does most other things, including all the planets.\n\nSo that is why.
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest: \n\nSaturn has 34 named satellites: \n\nOf those moons for which rotation rates are known, all but Phoebe and Hyperion rotate synchronously. \n\nThe three pairs Mimas-Tethys, Enceladus-Dione and Titan-Hyperion interact gravitationally in such a way as to maintain stable relationships between their orbits: the period of Mimas' orbit is exactly half that of Tethys, they are thus said to be in a 1:2 resonance; Enceladus-Dione are also 1:2; Titan-Hyperion are in a 3:4 resonance.
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The short answer is that toilets flush to the shape of the toilet - not because of northern or southern hemisphere location\n\nThe longer answer is that in theory it is possible that the "Coriolis effect" will change the the rotation of the flush. The Wikipedia link below has a detailed analysis. It can be abbreviated to "it's possible in an exact, scientific, controlled environment"
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no, cassini will stay in orbit.\n\nhttp://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
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electron does not orbit the nuleus. this idea was dismissed long back. in fact they spin in their place in either clockwise or anticlockwise direction. \n\noption (c) is correct
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Yes, the planets go through phases. Celestial phases are basically light hitting different hemispheres at different times.
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It does! It is going slower and slower all the time, due to the gravitational drag of the moon. Eventually, there will be tidal lock, and the moon will be much further away. And you and I will be a billion years dead.\nSee, all this happens on a PLANETARY time scale. We can't perceive it, except with very very sensitive devices that have only become available fairly recently.\nAs to why it spins ... maybe its happy? \nNo no no. It spins because it retains the orbital movement from when it coalesced into a solid mass. At the core, there is a gravitational singularity, and all the matter that makes up our planet is/was in orbit around it, but reached equilibrium in the collapse, forming the "solid" planetary mass.\nWhat astronomers are only now coming to realize (having deduced that there is a lot more matter in the universe than is readily observable) is that there are gravitational singularities at the core of virtually every large-scale body - planets, stars, and galaxies. \nThe whole notion of planets "coalescing" WITHOUT such a singularity is absurd, even in a Newtonian universe.\nSo, if you dug a deep enough hole, you would find a hole. Neat-o, huh?
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Down. Clockwise or anti-clockwise rotation is very much dependent on the first impulse when you open the drain, with coriolis force a distant second.