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Is the rotation of the earth due to gravity?
The rotation of the Earth is not directly caused by gravity. However, the gravitational pull between the Earth and other celestial bodies, such as the Moon and the Sun, does influence its rotational motion and helps maintain its spin.
How does the earth spin round?
The earth rotates because the material gas, dust, small particles asteroids, comets etc) that formed the earth was spinning. It rotates around the sun due to the gravitational pull toward the sun, just like the moon spins around the earth due to it's gravitational connection to the earth.
What is caused by the gravitational force of earth and the moon?
1) the tides 2) the slowing of Earth's rate of spin 3) the receding of the Moon 4) the stabilization of Earth's axial tilt.
What keeps the Moon in rotation?
Bodies spin through momentum; nothing's stopping them from spinning so they keep on spinning. The moon have a complication, because it's orbiting the Earth they have become tidally locked; so the Moon's rotation period is that same as the time to orbit the Earth.
Does the moon revolve because of gravitational forces?
Yes, the moon revolves about (orbits) the earth because of gravitational forces. However it also rotates (turns/spins) about its axis of rotation - this movement involves gravitational forces as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gravity is involved in both the revolution and the rotation of the moon. For more on the rotation (spin) of the moon, see the link below.
How do low tide and high tide have to do with astronomy?
it has to do with astronomy because the moon controls the tide with a gravitational pull due to the position of the Moon and its rotational Spin. Go to the NASA website for answers......
As the moon revolves around the earth the moons gravity pulls on the earths seas this gravitational force causes?
A tide. You're asking about the tidal force caused by the interaction of the earth and moon. The earth and moon orbit around their common point, the barycenter, which is located within the body of the earth. As the earth swings away from the barycenter, the tides are caused that are observed on the side of earth away from the moon.
What cause the earth to slow down in its orbit?
The moon. ________________ The Earth loses its kinetic energy due to all forms of friction acting on it (ie, tides, galactic space dust, solar wind, space weather, geomagnetic storms, etc). Because of this, there is an extra second added to the time it takes the Earth to fully spin roughly every 100 years.
If earth had less mass would its gravitational pull be weaker-stronger how would that affect its movement?
Weaker and earth would spin faster and the moin would be closer to earth all all times
Where does the earth stop?
No, the spin of the earth is slowing (due to tidal friction with the moon) and the moon is being pushed further away all the time but the earth will not stop spinning. Also the earth orbits the Sun and this will continue as well.
Does the moon spin on an axis as it orbits the Earth?
Yes, the moon does spin on its axis as it orbits the Earth. This is why we always see the same side of the moon facing towards us.
Why is it that some tides are higher?
The moon exerts a gravitational pull on earth. As a result, the ocean and Earth itself is pulled towards the moon. Confusingly, this means that the ocean bulges at the side closest to the moon as well as on the side furthest from the moon. As the Earth spins underneath the moon (one full spin for every 24 hours) so the swelled oceans move along the surface of Earth to stay positioned below the moon. As a result, the tides are high twice a day and low twice a day.
