{"id":4298,"date":"2018-10-22T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2018-10-22T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:06:36","slug":"is-venus-in-retrograde-because-life-is-whack-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/22\/is-venus-in-retrograde-because-life-is-whack-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Venus in retrograde because life is whack right now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4287\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10222018-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4287\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10222018-6-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"Is Venus in retrograde because life is whack right now?\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10222018-6-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10222018-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10222018-6-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10222018-6.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is Venus in retrograde because life is whack right now?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No. While initial rotation of Venus during primordial times was probably fast and prograde, Venus has been in its present configuration of slow retrograde motion within the age of the Solar System, possibly during the first billion years (Correia, 2003; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/spinofvenus\">bit.ly\/spinofvenus<\/a>). It is believed that the present motion of Venus is a steady state between gravitational tides and thermally driven atmospheric tides, as well as tidal dissipation effects due to proximity to the Sun (Correia, 2010; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/tidalevol\">bit.ly\/tidalevol<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. While initial rotation of Venus during primordial times was probably fast and prograde, Venus has been in its present configuration of slow retrograde motion within the age of the Solar System, possibly during the first billion years (Correia, 2003; bit.ly\/spinofvenus). It is believed that the present motion of Venus is a steady state between &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/22\/is-venus-in-retrograde-because-life-is-whack-right-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Venus in retrograde because life is whack right now?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}