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Old 29-12-2008, 03:09 PM
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Could Venus and Earth once have been a single planet?

I was just wondering about this today while reading about how the Moon was formed. I thought that if an impact had occured on a larger planet and split that planet in two could that account why Venus has a retrograde rotation?
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