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From: jao@valid.UUCP (John Oswalt)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Uranus's axis
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 12:57:04 EST
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I know that Uranus's axis of rotation is tilted ~90 degrees from the
normal, perpendicular-to-ecliptic axis.  This means that the axis
lies in the plane of the ecliptic, but which way does it point?  
Does it point at the sun, or is it tangent to the orbit, or some
angle in between?



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John Oswalt (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!jao)