Why does the Earth rotate about its own axis?

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Why does the Earth rotate about its own axis?

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Anything in a weightless environment is going to have some momentum about its different axis. Its hard to get something to sit perfectly still and not rotate. The Earth got its rotational momentum from the energy of the collisions of the debris that formed Earth during its creation.

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