This implies that an object's direction of rotation, when viewed from above its north pole, may be either clockwise or counterclockwise.
The direction of rotation exhibited by most objects in the solar system (including Sun and Earth) is counterclockwise.
The ecliptic remains within 3° of the invariable plane over five million years,[2] but is now inclined about 23.44° to Earth's celestial equator used for the coordinates of poles.
[1] To avoid confusion with the "north" and "south" definitions relative to the invariable plane, the poles are called "positive" and "negative."
The location of the celestial poles of some selected Solar System objects is shown in the following table.
Some bodies in the Solar System, including Saturn's moon Hyperion and the asteroid 4179 Toutatis, lack a stable north pole.
They rotate chaotically because of their irregular shape and gravitational influences from nearby planets and moons, and as a result the instantaneous pole wanders over their surface, and may momentarily vanish altogether (when the object comes to a standstill with respect to the distant stars).