Re: planetary and atmospheric rotation - origins, direction, etc

Brian Davis (brdavis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) writes:
> On Feb 29, 8:17=A0am, af...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (John Park) wrote:
> 
>> how unlikely is it that a moon could be formed--or
>> captured--in a orbit so large that the time scale for
>> deceleration is comparable to the age of the solar
>> system?
> 
> Well... that statement is in some form true for nearly every (still)
> existing moon in the solar system, right?
> 
The context was *slowly rotating* planets, of which we have a much smaller
sample.

	--John Park