Venus.. could it have been the planet...???

Question

that smacked into Earth long ago and helped to create the Moon?... could that be why it's spinning backwards?..... or could the passage of this straying planet have fouled up Venus' spin by passing very close to her on it's way by?..... I'm having a hard time coming up with any other good reasons why Venus is the 'different' planetary body in the system....

Answer 1

no it couldn't when they collided the gravitational force kept both the planets together except for the debris that circled around the planet and stayed in orbit so no venus couldn't have been the planet

Answer 2

I believe Venus was at one time a planet that harbored life, then whatever species lived on it destroyed it with pollution much like we are doing to Earth right now, then we'll go occupy Mars. Who is to say that humans have always been on Earth, maybe we used to live on Venus, destroyed it and moved on to Earth. I believe the reason it spins backwards is because planets dont revolve or rotate depending on gravity, but instead magnetism. Venus has no magnetism, Moon & Mars has permanent magnet cores. Now isnt it inertesting that all the planets that surround Earth, the only planet with life on it, are different than the planets in the rest of the solar system. Think about it. Its like they are all balancing life, and we are the center of that balance.

Answer 3

I like your theories, but I'm sure planetary scientists have considered this and it didn't work on the computer models....but thats just a guess.

You could be right, sounds plausible.

P.S. Nice garden!

Answer 4

No.  The planet that hit earth was destroyed and incorporated into both the new earth or its moon.  The early solar system was rather chaotic, and collisions between planet sized bodies were not uncommon.  There was a recent scientific american article that dealt with that topic.  Many current planets seemed to have been hit a number of times during the accretion.  Earth was not unique except for its development of a largish moon from the debris.    

Answer 5

No.