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Earth spins like a top due to the conservation of angular momentum, a principle that arises from its formation in the solar system. When the planet formed from a rotating disk of gas and dust, it retained that rotational motion. Additionally, the initial uneven distribution of mass and gravitational forces contributed to its spinning. This rotation is maintained because there are minimal external forces acting to slow it down.
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Does the earth have a top and a bottom?
The Earth's top and bottom are defined by the North and South poles, respectively. The concept of top and bottom is based on human perception, as Earth is a sphere with no true top or bottom in space.
Does the earth spin around the sun or moon?
The Earth neither spins round the Sun nor the Moon. The Earth rotates(spins) on it own axis, top give us night and day. The Moon revolves (orbits) round the Earth once a month (Moonth). The Earth and Moon, as a binary system revolve (orbit) round the Sun once a year. The Moon making 13 orbits of the Earth in once a year.
What planet spins like a top?
Uranus spins on its side, causing it to rotate like a top rather than spinning like most planets which rotate vertically. This unusual orientation is likely the result of a past collision with a large object.
How many times changes occurs in the Earth axis?
The Earth's axis (the imaginary line round which it spins like a top) has remained at its current inclination since the Earth/Moon system formed some 4 thousand million years ago. The reason for this is that the presence of the Moon stabilises the Earth and prevents the axis of spin from changing.
When earth spins on its axes?
another name for earth spinning on its axis is rotation.
The earth spins on its axis like a top in a movement?
Essentially, yes.
Earth spins on its axis like a top in a movement called?
Rotation
What are other earth's movement aside from rotation and revolution?
The Earth spins like a top around its own axis. The Earth orbits the Sun. The Sun has its own proper motion through the Milky Way galaxy, and orbits the center of the galaxy every 220 million years or so. The Milky Way galaxy itself is moving, but because we don't have any fixed point of reference in the universe, we don't know in what direction.
How come at night time you are not upside down if the earth spins at night?
Because the Earth spins on a near vertical axis like a top or a basketball spinning on a finger. But if you were upside down you wouldn't know anymore about it than do the people in Australia.
Just like the earth the sun on its axis?
Spins.
What does the earth spins on?
the earth spins on an axis, which is carried over by conservation of angular momentum when the earth was created
Does the earth have a top and a bottom?
The Earth's top and bottom are defined by the North and South poles, respectively. The concept of top and bottom is based on human perception, as Earth is a sphere with no true top or bottom in space.
Does it take 9.92 Earth days for Jupiter to turn once on its axis?
No, it's more like 9.92 HOURS for Jupiter to rotate once. For its enormous size, Jupiter spins like a top!
Does the earth spin around the moon or the sun?
The moon spins around the earth once a month. The earth spins around the sun once a year and the earth spins on it axis once a day giving rise to night and day. So in answer to your question the earth spins around the sun and the moon spins around the earth.
Does the earth spin around the sun or moon?
The Earth neither spins round the Sun nor the Moon. The Earth rotates(spins) on it own axis, top give us night and day. The Moon revolves (orbits) round the Earth once a month (Moonth). The Earth and Moon, as a binary system revolve (orbit) round the Sun once a year. The Moon making 13 orbits of the Earth in once a year.
How does earth revovle?
the sun has like a magnetic field and the earth has to orbit it. in order to do so it spins on its axis
What planet spins like a top?
Uranus spins on its side, causing it to rotate like a top rather than spinning like most planets which rotate vertically. This unusual orientation is likely the result of a past collision with a large object.
