How do you think earths axis became angled?

Answer 1

The axis of rotation of the earth describes the line about which the globe turns. The rotation provides us with day and night. And because the axis of rotation is not perpenducular to earth's plane of orbit about the sun, we get the seasons as the earth makes a trip around our local star.

Answer 2

Scientists don't know exactly why the Earth's rotation is the speed that it is. There are probably several factors involved, including the rotation of the original planetary nebular cloud when the solar system formed, plus the angular momentum imparted to the Earth as a result of numerous collisions.

Whatever caused the Earth to spin, there is very little friction in space to cause it to slow down, so the Earth continues to spin (remember, "an object in motion tends to remain in motion"). Any force powerful enough to speed up or slow down the rate of the Earth's rotation significantly would probably be powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth and re-make the planet. It's thought that the Moon was formed in just such a collision, though it happened before there was any life on Earth anyway (at least as far as we know).

(The Earth's rotation is actually slowing very gradually as angular momentum is transferred to the Moon as a result of tidal effects. This is a truly tiny change though, about 2 milliseconds per century, or one second every 50,000 years.)

Answer 3

Mostly, nothing. The Earth's spin makes it like an enormous gyroscope, and it is quite stable. The Earth's axis does wobble, a movement called "precession", but the wobble takes 26,000 years to complete one cycle.

Answer 4

the earth is angled because the earth was hit in the northern hemisphere

billions of years ago by a small planet in which earth on its angle and the debris

is what created the moon as the debris was formed into a ball by earths

gravitational pull

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There are currently more than 40 questions lined up on this site, all expressing

some form of consternation and wonderment at this puzzling riddle, asking why

the Earth is 'tilted', and how this arrangement came to be.

My answer is: Why would you think that any planet's axis of rotation must be

perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, or to anything else for that matter ?

-- Mercury's is pretty close to perpendicular. But . . .

-- Venus' is inclined almost 174 degrees, and

-- Earth's is inclined about 23.5 degrees, and

-- Mars' is inclined about 25.2 degrees, and

-- Jupiter's is inclined about 3.1 degrees, and

-- Uranus' is inclined about 98 degrees, and

-- Neptune's is inclined about 28.3 degrees, and

-- Pluto's is inclined almost 123 degrees.

From one end of the solar system to the other, the 'tilts' are all over the place !

The anomaly, the odd-ball, the non-conformist, the one that stands out, the

thing that is not like the others, and the one you should be asking about if

it bothers you, ought to be Mercury, and you should be asking "There's no

reason why a planet's axis of rotation should have any particular relation to

the plane of its orbit, so how did it happen that Mercury's ... in contrast to all

the other planets ... just happened to wind up perpendicular to it ? Why is

Mercury not tilted ?"

That's what all these people should be asking.

(And if Earth had to get hit by something in order to get a moon, then how did

Jupiter get 65 of them ? But that's a different subject.)

Answer 5

It doesn't. The Earth is spinning like an enormous gyroscope; any force powerful enough to slow down, stop, or topple the Earth would rip it to pieces and fling the fragments into space.

We get our seasons from the fact that the axis of rotation is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun. Nothing mysterious about it; it is that way now, has been this way for billions of years, and will STAY this way until something big enough hits the Earth hard enough to destroy it.

In other words; not this week.

Answer 6

Nothing. The Earth, spinning on its axis, acts like an enormous gyroscope, so it is very stable in space.

But all gyros have a slow wobble called "precession", which in this case is a 26,000-year cycle.

Answer 7

The imaginary line (The Axis) has a force that holds on to the earth. This force is called Eriquity, and it also has the ability to move the earth in a sideways direction.

Answer 8

The Earth's axis is not a physical thing. Any body that is rotating has an axis of rotation.

Answer 9

you may believe it or not but the truth of its reason was happened in the times of Noah,the times of the flood...the Earth tilted when the world was flooded.

Answer 10

It basically maintains its direction in space.