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The Earth was formed by matter left over when the Sun coalesced The cloud of gas and dust that was condensing to form the sun was spinning so everything in orbit around the sun would continue to move in that direction.
If something tried to reverse to Earths direction of travel it would shatter due to the stresses.

2007-09-02 00:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

As a Christian, I would state that it is because God placed the planets in their orbits. Theories of solar evolution do not explain a great many problems with our solar system developing from a massive cloud of gas and dust into the current forms and orbits of the planets. The sun has 99 percent of the mass of our solar system but the larger planets have 99 percent of the angular momentum....the sun should be spinning much faster than it does. Two of the planets rotate backwards to the rest of the planets in their orbit which would not occur if they were formed from the same dust cloud. The sun is 99 percent hydrogen and helium but none of the planets come close to this perccentage so how did they evolve from the same cloud of dust and gas? Each planet is more special and different from the next ---so how is it they all formed from the same cloud? Much more to debate about.
The creation account of the Bible in Genesis was a one time event when time, matter, light and the natural laws were first put into effect.

2007-09-02 07:13:50 · answer #2 · answered by paul h 7 · 0 0

It is according to newton's law. He said that there is a mutual attraction between any two objects. ( this will account for the space also) . because of the strong attraction of the sun, towards the earth, the earth rotate's around the sun in the same direction.

2007-09-02 00:38:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

After the big bang, earth was a piece of mass.It got dragged due to the gravitational force of the sun.Due to this it rotates around the sun.Since it has the momentum of very high magnitude it cannot change its direction easily..

2007-09-02 00:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by srikanta 2 · 0 0

Your questions are actually not as ordinary as you could think of. because of the fact the orbital plane of the planets (the ecliptic) does not lie interior a similar plane because of the fact the Milky way galaxy, your determination of reference frames isn't sufficiently sparkling to grant an actual reaction. The ecliptic is in reality skewed at an perspective of approximately 60 stages relative to the galactic plane, so the earth is style of revolving up and down in the process the galactic plane because of the fact the sunlight orbits the galactic center. And the earth is likewise not spinning on an axis that's regularly occurring to the ecliptic, so this basically provides to the complexity slightly. From a image voltaic equipment point of view, the earth, and all the planets, including Uranus, orbit the sunlight in a counter clockwise experience from the point of view of an observer at a region in area prolonged from the north pole of the sunlight. because of the lean of the earth on its axis, this path is 23.5 stages far flung from the north pole of the earth. From a galactic point of view, we are able to make sure the region surrounding the middle of our galaxy on any summer season night interior the path of Sagittarius. From the northern hemisphere, the spiral hands unwrap and make larger far flung from this nucleus from the horizon upward and around the sky in the direction of the northeast. So, in case you're sitting above that galactic plane - interior the path of approximately - the constellation Coma Berenices, then the spiral hands and the galaxy as an entire are spinning in a clockwise path out of your point of view. An observer interior the southern hemisphere may even see issues in any different case. yet that's what is going on, and the two planes of revolution are actually not with regards to one yet another in the different style. finally, the two galaxies (Milky way and Andromeda) will probable merge interior yet another 5 billion years. considering the fact that they are 2.3 million easy years far flung from one yet another, this implies that the fee of closure is extra or less .00046 easy years consistent with 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, or approximately 2.seventy six billion miles consistent with 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, or approximately 7.fifty six million miles consistent with day, or approximately 315,000 mph - approximately ninety miles consistent with 2nd.

2016-12-16 09:15:04 · answer #5 · answered by maiale 4 · 0 0

Be careful while asking the question! . The direction of the rotation always changes per every second. But it always takes the same arbit. If you want to rotate it in reverse direction, sufficient energy it needed to stop and nullify all the forces and Reverse the force of acceleration and attration force etc. it's impossible to provide energy to it to do anything.So.. it movies in elliplical orbit. ..

2007-09-02 00:37:41 · answer #6 · answered by ashok r 1 · 0 0

because the earth is attracted by the gravitational pull of the sun

2007-09-02 00:36:16 · answer #7 · answered by Hitesh Dhanwani 3 · 0 0

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