If the world was to stop spinning would we lose our atomosphere?

Question

or would we just sit in the same spot in space?

Answer 1

Our atmosphere is held by Earth's gravity, not by its spinning. We'd still be orbiting the Sun whether we were spinning or not.

The main impact if we stopped spinning is that days would be six months long, resulting in very high temperatures by the end of the 'day' and nights would be six months long, resulting in very cold temperatures by the end of the 'night'.

The temperature extremes would make most of the Earth uninhabitable (except near the poles).

(And the Earth's spinning has nothing to do with its gravity. The Earth's gravity is due to its mass.)

Answer 2

The earths its atmosphere is held by of gravity and protected by the earths magnetic field the magnetic field shields earth from solar winds which can strip away the atmosphere.

The spin creates the seasons which disperses heat through out the atmosphere and make our planet inhabitable

The earth's rotation does not affect the earth's revolution around the sun, so we would not sit in the same spot if earth stopped spinning.

Answer 3

The reason the earth can retain its atmosphere is because of gravity and magnetic field (magnetic field shields earth from solar wind, which would otherwise strip away the atmosphere), not the spin, so no.

The earth's rotation also does not really affect the earth's revolution around the sun, so we will not sit in the same spot if earth stopped spinning.

Answer 4

The atmosphere is retained by the earth's gravity, not by any sort of centrifugal force. If the earth were to stop spinning on its axis, one side of the planet would always face the sun, wile the other would be in constant darkness. This would, at the very least, disrupt weather patterns, but it wouldn't change the rate at which atmosphere is lost to space.

Answer 5

Bob G is right - spinning and gravity are unrelated. Did you ask this because of centrifugal force (which would be outward in this case), or maybe the moon (which rotates at the same speed as it revolves (so if the Earth were its "sun", one day would be eternity), and does have a thin atmosphere)?

Answer 6

I guess nobody saw the movie about it.

The spinning comes the core of the planet (magnetic forces). Our Orbit around the sun is controlled by gravity (Earth's mass).

If we stopped spinning, the core would eventually cool, and life on this "rock" would start getting real bad.

The atomsphere would eventually get burned away, leaving carbon dixoide and some trace elements.

Answer 7

Earth's spin forms our magnetic field, not our gravitational one. Were our planet to stop spinning then our magnetic field would vanish and we would be open to a major invasion of small atomic particles streaming toward us from our sun.

Answer 8

No and no. We would not lose our atmosphere and we would continue to orbit the sun as normal. It'd cause some other problems though...primarily, really bad effects on the climate.

Answer 9

The atmosphere is here because of gravity not spin.

Answer 10

if the world would stop spinning one half would be stuck in day for the rest of their lives and the other would be stuck in day.We would still keep orbiting the sun.