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Why is Uranus tilted at a 90 degree angle?
Question Date: 1998-03-04
Answer 1:

It is believed that something must have happened to Uranus to make its rotation axis become so tilted. What do you think could have happened? Imagine you are watching a top spinning from across a room. How might you change the motion of the top from where you are standing?

Answer 2:

No one knows.People think that it may have hit something else at some time or just formed strangely, but it is one of the mysteries of our solar system. Do you know any other mysteries of our solar system?


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