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Why does the world spin on its axis?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

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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13y ago

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