• Fogle@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    North is subjective though and I doubt any ships are actively tracking the magnetic flux of every planet in the system

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      5 months ago

      North is determined by the rotation of the planet. The sun sets in the west, and if you are facing west, north is to your right. This is true for any planet/moon and doesn’t have anything to do with magnets.

        • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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          Venus and Neptune are the only round objects that are rotating in different directions in our solar systems. The angular momentum of the proto-planetary disc is preserved in all the bodies with enough mass to preserve said angular momentum following a collision. So every solar system has an inherently “up” and “down” to it’s planetary disc with nearly all the major bodies in said system rotating in a similar fashion.