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From: maariano@watdaisy.UUCP (Marco Ariano)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: "At the moment Uranus's south pole points..."
Message-ID: <7618@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 16:49:34 EST
Article-I.D.: watdaisy.7618
Posted: Fri Feb 21 16:49:34 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 20:58:32 EST
References: <860217-235409-1418@Xerox> <517@iham1.UUCP> <287@drivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: maariano@watdaisy.UUCP (Marco Ariano)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: Right Hand Rule

In article <517@iham1.UUCP> spock@iham1.UUCP (Ed Weiss) writes:
>In article <860217-235409-1418@Xerox>, Murray.pa@XEROX.COM writes:
>> How do I tell which end is North and which is South? I assume that the
>> "North" pole of Mars is the one that's pointing roughly parallel to the
>> North pole of Earth. That doesn't transfer to Uranus very well.
>
>I believe you can define "North Pole" as:
>	When looking at this pole from a position perpendicular to the
>	plane of the equator, the planet has a counter-clockwise spin.
>

and:
In article <287@drivax.UUCP> holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) suggests:
>
>I think "North" probably means the pole that, when looking down directly
>above it, the planet seems to be turning counter-clockwise. Is this right?
>

Looks to me like yet another case of the old 'Right Hand Rule'.
Anybody (that knows what they're talking about) want to verify this?