Why does the Earth rotate about its own axis?
In: Earth Science
About 4.6 billion years ago the solar system was a cloud of gas and dust. Gravity collapsed the material in on itself and it began to spin and forming the sun in the center of the material. The remaining material began to clump together to form the planets. The earth rotates because of the initial formation. This is also why the majority of planets spin in the same direction and same plane. Venus and Uranus may have had large collision in it’s past to cause their weird rotations
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