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My recent cyclic catastrophism explains many unanswered questions concerning the solar system.  The retrograde rotation of Venus is one such question.  In the recent catastrophism scenario proto-Venus formed only 6000 years ago as the result of a massive impact on Jupiter.  The resulting plasma cloud was initially a thousand times the size of Jupiter itself but it quickly contracted to an extremely bright star-like body, which fell into a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun.  The heavy elements immediately contracted to form the planet although the interior today remains a cauldron of very hot liquid covered by a thin basalt crust.  This explains how the iron cores of terrestrial planets form, something that astrophysicists still cannot satisfactorily explain.  The lighter elements, including those that characterize the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere, were lost to interplanetary space by Jeans (thermal) escape.  These were dominated by hydrogen and oxygen, which comprise the bulk of Jupiter in the form of methane gas hydrates. Once Venus cools, these will be recaptured forming its surface, salty oceans and atmosphere.

The orbit of Venus was rapidly reduced by braking at perihelion, due to tidal distortion of its fluid body and magnetic braking due to its highly ionized makeup at temperatures greater than 10,000 K.  It also exchanged orbital energy and angular momentum with the most ancient planet, which I call priori-Mars, ejecting it from its interior orbit, similar to that of Venus today, into an orbit which crossed the Earth’s orbit.  After scorching the Earth and overturning its mantle twice in a few decades – a process that essentially wiped clean the Earth of the sub-human species present before that date, there was a spectacular ‘battle’ between Venus and priori-Mars in the vicinity of the Earth, which is graphically recorded in ancient myths.  This three-body interaction finally reduced the orbit of Venus to one that no longer crossed that of the Earth, but was still quite eccentric, influencing subsequent encounters of priori-Mars with the Earth for 3000 years  -  specifically the releases of the former from each fifteen year period in geosynchronous orbit.

The spectacular encounter created uplifted areas on the surfaces of both priori-Mars and proto-Venus as their tidal forces stretched one another into teardrop shapes.  Due to priori-Mars relatively rigid outer shell this distortion remained in its crust in the form of the uplifted Tharsis Bulge and a global rift system, the most obvious feature of which is the Valles Marineris.  Because Venus was still essentially a hot fluid sphere, the uplifted area on Venus, Aphrodite Terra, settled significantly and is not nearly as high as Tharsis.

Interestingly, there is a recognized resonance between the retrograde rotation (‘backward’ spin) of Venus and its orbital position relative to the Earth which baffles astrophysicists to this day.  At each inferior conjunction of Venus (Sun, Venus and Earth aligned) exactly the same longitude on Venus is oriented toward the Earth.  It seems as though the tidal force of the Earth is tugging on the Aphrodite terra, causing this alignment, but all the astrophysical calculations indicate that the current uplift is not sufficiently high for the Earth to have such an influence.

Both the retrograde rotation of Venus and the rotational resonance are due to the encounters between the Earth and Venus during the Vedic Period (Bronze and Iron Ages).  Because proto-Venus was initially a fluid sphere it had no rotation, but by the time of the interaction with priori-Mars, which reduced its orbit to an eccentric one remaining inside the orbit of the Earth, a thin crust had formed.  The near-Earth encounter with priori-Mars uplifted Aphrodite Terra, which was probably higher in the millennia after the encounter than it is now, i.e. it has since settled, again, because the interior is still fluid.  Because it was in an orbit inside that of the Earth, it moved past the Earth from east to west at inferior conjunctions (closest approach to the Earth).  The tidal attraction of the Earth on Aphrodite Terra was such that Venus was given a tidal impulse in the retrograde direction at each conjunction as shown in Figure 1.  This orbital relationship remained in place for some 3000 years, during which time the retrograde rotation and the synchronisation of Venus’ rotation with the position of the Earth became established and remains to this day.  This is just one of many solar system features that is explained by recent catastrophism and can never be explained by the currently accepted atheistic uniformitarian paradigm.

Tidal force of Earth induced Venus retrograde rotation at each conjunction