Stretching my brain as always, the latest series of Only Connect hurt my brain today when VCM mentioned a planet whose day is longer than its year. How can it be? But it is so.
Rav Google informs me: a day on VENUS is longer than a year (on Venus). It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun. It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to rotate once (the longest rotation of any planet in our Solar System), and only 224.7 Earth days to complete one trip round the Sun.
Took me several minutes to get my head round that.
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