2006-09-30 01:26:59 · 8 answers · asked by praveen m 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
actually, the earth formed in a disc of material that rotated around the sun as it formed. the parts of the disc closer to the sun orbited faster than parts that were just a little farther away so as the earth formed, the parts that made it that were closer to the sun orbited a little faster than the parts that were farther from the sun, and this gave the earth a little spin in the direction opposite of its orbit around the sun. the earth rotates west to east.
2006-09-30 10:39:14 · answer #1 · answered by warm soapy water 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually the surface of the Earth is moving Eastward, so from west to east.
Almost everything in the Solar System goes around the same way: angular momentum vector pointed more-or-less north. According to current star formation theory, that's because the cloud of interstellar gas that contracted to form the solar system was rotating very slightly in that direction. As it contracted, the reduction in radius spun everything up. (Ice skater pulling in hands, etc.) Any deviations from conservation of angular momentum have come from material being ejected from the Solar System. Some small bodies in the Solar System do not share the same angular momentum direction because of collisions.
2006-09-30 03:02:35 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Spark?????
Looking down on the North Pole the Earth spins counter clockwise. The spin was imparted when the Earth formed by forces acting at that time, but may have been mitigated by the bombardments of accretion and perhaps collisions with large objects (the moon may have been one of these). Inertia due to the large mass of the Earth, the influence of other planetary bodies and the laws of physics causes the spin to remain constant.
2006-09-30 02:42:33 · answer #3 · answered by Nightstalker1967 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't. The earth revovles west to east. If it revolved from east to west, then the sun would rise in the west and set in the east.
As for why it does this, it is because of angular momentum.
2006-09-30 02:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by sparc77 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Check this video.
http://atropos.as.arizona.edu/aiz/teaching/a204/images/Moon_formation_collision.mov
If someone slap you in the face like this you would be spinning too! The debris flying left is the moon!
Enjoy!
2006-09-30 15:11:18 · answer #5 · answered by Manny L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think you mean the sun.it rises in the east and sets in the west.
2006-09-30 01:34:55 · answer #6 · answered by punkin 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wow!!!
That video says it all.
So.... so..... interesting.
2006-10-03 20:07:58 · answer #7 · answered by Ylia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is the way GOD planned it to be
2006-09-30 01:30:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋