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Does the world spin on its axis?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 12/28/2022

Mainly because any object that is spinning has a tendency to continue spinning. This is called conservation of angular momentum. The initial spin must have come when the planet was formed; different objects crashed together, forming the planet, and it is very unlikely that all of these crashes were exactly in the center of the newly-forming planet, so there was a random net angular momentum.

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