Solar System Rotation Curve

This is a plot of each planet’s (and dwarf planet’s) average rotational velocity in its orbit around the Sun, plotted against its average distance from the Sun. The curve that they trace out is the “rotation curve” for our Solar system, which is “Keplerian” in that it follows the predictions of Kepler’s laws of motions.

For more information, see the MilkyWay@home science page that this figure was created for.