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How does Earth rotate on its axis, clockwise or anti-clockwise?
How does Earth rotate on its axis, clockwise or anti-clockwise? How does Earth orbit around the Sun, clockwise or anti-clockwise? How do Earth's satellites orbit around the Earth, clockwise or anti-...
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Why is Earth rotating along $x$(day and night) and $y$(tilt, causing seasons) axis, but not along the $z$ axis (taking $z$ as the axis along orbital)?
I have read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt
It is obvious that the rotation of any planet is a combination of rotation along three axis x,y,z.
Lets take the z axis as the one being the ...
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Why don't we feel the subtle speed change of Earth's elliptical orbit?
Earth's orbit is a slight ellipse, so to conserve momentum its speed increases when it is closest to the Sun. If the speed changes there is an acceleration. If there is an acceleration there is a ...
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What would happen if the Earth was in a polar orbit around the sun?
This is a question that has been bugging me for a while now, I was wondering about the effects on the Earth if it was in different orbital situations to what it is now, and one of those was what would ...
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Angular momentum power plant on Earth
If tidal power plants are slowing down Earth's rotation then is it theoretically possible to build a power plant that would drain energy from Earth's angular momentum (thus slowing down it's rotation)?...
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