The relative rotation periods of planets in 2-D

In the above are sidereal (relative to the stars) rotation periods, and axial tilts of the planets were surgically removed. This animation below should answer a lot of Qs about tilts/directions of rotations (and hey it's Pluto again!) https://twitter.com/physicsJ/status/1232705049060466689

Stick around because I'll be casting all these to a single sphere later

Life is much better in 1080p 60fps

If you like Reddit, I put it on there (and will forever be scared to read the comments). I encourage you to upvote it to help get share science https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/hd0azf/the_relative_sidereal_rotation_periods_of_planets/

Just to expand and vent a little: including Pluto means including *at least* Ceres, and when you include both, you're losing out on detail because you need to make the other planets smaller to fit it in. Pluto isn't fully mapped either, so it's not ideal for this stuff

The planets spin because they picked up material that was already moving, and angular momentum must be conserved. At the same time, the bigger things are, the more material they must have accreted in the early stages of the solar system. So bigger usually means fast :-)