It's a matter of fluid dynamics. When the solarsystem was still a disc of heavy dust and gases everything was revolving around the sun clockwise. Large clusters of dust and gas began to clump under the force of gravity and thus the planets formed - but like eddies on the periphery of a whirlpool they were forced to spin in the opposite direction.
Most planets and as well as other bodies spin in a direction opposite their orbital movement. This is called retrograde rotation.
2007-03-27 07:59:36
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answered by Ben 7
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"The Earth is rotating anti-clockwise so that sundials will run clockwise, otherwise they wouldn't be clocks"
The reason why things are spinning in the solar system, such as the 1) the sun itself, 2) the orbits of the planets 3) the orbits of the moons, 4) the planets and the moons themselves, is because of statistically net angular momentum of the original interstellar aggregation of matter which had gravitationally coalesced into the solar system. It's important to keep in mind that there was a single net angular momentum, which ended up being distributed through 1), 2), 3), and 4) during their formation. This means, more or less, all 1), 2), 3), and 4) share at least the same angular momentum direction. If you look at the solar system "from above", which is over the north pole of Earth, you'll notice that everything is "spinning anticlockwise" (Viewed from the south side, it will all appear to be spinning clockwise). Not only the Earth will appear to be spinning anticlockwise, so will its oribt about the sun, as with the orbits of all the other planets, as well as most of their moons about the planets, and as well as the spin of the sun itself. It's just a consequence of the original net angular momentum of the gas cloud that eventually ended up forming the solar system.
It might be a little hard for laymen to comprehend, but if you take any random cloud of particles in space, even with its center of mass at rest, the odds are that it will nonetheless have a net angular momentum. it's not true that the "random angular momentum" would "average out" to nothing. This is the reason why solar systems are expected to be extremely common in the universe, as galaxies are.
2007-03-27 08:26:18
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answered by Scythian1950 7
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solid question Sameer...... properly i'm no longer chuffed With Any Of The solutions...... Gravity Or Slanting can't be the reason for This...... And If Earth Rotates Like This because of solar Then question Arises Why solar Rotates In that distinctive course the two Clockwise From North Pole Or Anti-Clockwise From South Pole......
2016-12-19 15:11:10
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answered by Anonymous
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If you don't like it, look at the south pole and it will go clockwise.
2007-03-27 08:15:52
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answered by Gene 7
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guess its something God ha destined for it to be that way,though it has soo much sceintific explainations
2007-03-27 08:11:03
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answered by o 2
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that much to give you additional time
2007-03-27 07:40:35
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answered by sarjan 3
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U got to beleive God is great...
2007-03-27 10:36:27
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answered by Smile- conquers the world 6
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