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Why does the earth move so fast?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

We have no real idea of what caused the Earth to form in the orbit that it did (rather than one a little closer to the Sun or a little further away) but the speed of the Earth in its current orbit is fixed by its distance from the Sun. A closer orbit would be faster; a more distant orbit would be slower.

Nor do we know why the Earth spins at its current rate. These things happened billions of years ago. We may NEVER know what happened way back when to cause things to be the way they are.

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16y ago

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