who or what started the moon, the earth and other planets rotate in its axis?
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the creation of the solar system.  It spins in a giant disk for a few billion years as dust form planets from newborn stars.
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Techtonic scientist who study continental drift (which is ongoing) believe that at one time long ago almost all land masses were collected into a huge circle called Pangea (meaning all land).  When it split up to drift into present locations it was probably pure coincidence why pointy parts of land masses pointed one way rather than another.  My pet theory is that luna tides (that affect the oceans and earth's crust) may have biased the direction of "cracks" in the land masses, but perhaps I'm just a luna-tick.  Incidentally the term lunatic originally applied to scientists who met once a month when they could travel at night with the aid of the light of a full moon.
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It is because of the Earth's rotation.
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because the earth rotates on an axis
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The Earth rotates once in 24 hours, and its (equatorial) radius is 3,963 miles (6,378 km). As with the Moon, the rotational speed starts at zero at either geographic pole and increases as you head toward the equator, where it reaches its maximum of about 1038 mi/hr (1669 km/hr). At 45 degrees north or south latitude, the rotational speed is about 0.7 of this maximum speed.
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Yes, the moon spins (or rotates) once for each revolution (orbit).  This happens because the moon is "tidally locked" to the earth.  \n\nThe moon exerts tidal forces on the earth because it pulls harder on the part of the earth closer to the moon and less hard on the part of the earth father from the moon.  The result is tides--the ocean bulges up on the side close to the moon because of the harder pull and actually bulges up away from the moon on the far side because of the weaker pull.\n\nThe earth also exerts tidal fores on the moon.  The moon has no oceans (and never did), but the solid rock of the moon bulged.  The moon used to spin much faster, but bulging and rotating causes friction, which slowed the moon's rotation until it keeps one face toward the earth.  Thus, the bulge is fixed in one place on the moon and no more friction!
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Hey...I think it was Johaness Kepler...and his Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
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For years it was thought that in the case of Venus that the Earth was the culprit. It is a curious fact that as Venus rotates three times on its axis in 729.27 days, the Earth goes twice around the Sun ( 728.50 days) This has suggested to many dynamicists that Earth and Venus are locked into a 3:2 tidal resonance. There are many bodies in the solar system that seem to be locked into various kinds of spin-orbit resonances, especially families of asteroids with the planet Jupiter. Mercury also seems to be gravitationally locked into some kind of resonance with the Sun since its day (58.646 days) and its year ( 87.969 days) are also in the proportion of 3:2. \n\nwhat happened in essence is that venus spins once a year which is about zero rotation in the normal planetary sense.  evidently the way the solar system formed it just sucked the spin out of venus.  that probably accounts for why it's a greenhouse.
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The moon spins on its axis in the same amount of time it takes to complete one orbit around the earth. That is why the same side of the moon is  always facing earth 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes according to my American Heritage Dictionary's first definition of "moon".
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I think all "matters" that spin have magnetic field. I believe magnetic field is basically causing earth to have north and south pole, allowing it to spin on its axis. Earth's moon, any moon, even Sun rotates, so, it's like all planets, stars, and moons have magnetic field.
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If the question is about precession, then wikipedia has an answer:\n\n(The earth's axis undergoes a change in the direction of its axis, very slowly though...it spins like a wobbling top, and if you extend the axis up to the heavens and plotted it over 26000 years, it would trace a small circle in the sky. This is known as precession.)\n\n"The explanation of this is: The axis of the Earth undergoes precession due to a combination of the Earth's nonspherical shape (it is an oblate spheroid, bulging outward at the equator) and the gravitational tidal forces of the Moon and Sun applying torque as they attempt to pull the equatorial bulge into the plane of the ecliptic. The portion of the precession due to the combined action of the Sun and the Moon is called lunisolar precession."\n\nLook up the article in wikipedia with the provided link and you'll have a more detailed explanation along with a detailed diagram (2nd link) showing the circle it traces in teh sky... You can see by the diagram that Polaris will/was not always the north star. At different periods of the earth's history, other stars assumed that role or there was no north star.
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None specifically. \n\nAll celestial bodies rotate.  The earth is no different.
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Unfortunately, I think it's pretty impossible to say exactly who first named the planet 'Earth'. Actually, I really doubt one person really named it intentionally; rather it developed over time as part of the English language. Earth is Old English and German in origin, related to the Old Saxon 'ertha', the Dutch 'aerde', and the German 'erda'. Terra is a French and Latin word, and so isn't part of the 'Earth' etymology. I'm not really an expert on words and word origins, but it seems likely that people used Earth to mean 'land' and then it was the natural thing to refer to all the land and the planet. I tried to look up more specific details about the specific usage of the word over time, but even the Oxford English Dictionary (online) admits: \n\n"Men's notions of the shape and position of the earth have so greatly changed since Old Teutonic times, while the language of the older notions has long outlived them, that it is very difficult to arrange the senses and applications of the word in any historical order." \n\nSo, as with the names of the other planets that have been known throughout human history (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), it's difficult to say who first thought of the planet as Earth. The names were part of culture even before we really understood the significance of what planets are and where they are in space.
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If you were to go a million miles (or so) over the north pole, you'd see the earth rotating counterclockwise, the moon revolving around the earth counterclockwise, and the earth moving counterclockwise around the sun.  \n\nIt is the earth's counterclockwise rotation that makes the sun seem to rise in the east and set in the west.
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you are rght about aristotle as it was Pythagoras (you know the theorem) 570 BC who hypothesised the curvature of the earth and the heavenly bodies,later the most notable writers on the positioning and behaviour of the planets were copernicus, gallaleio, kepler and newton
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This is simply a matter of perspective. From the South Pole, the earth's rotation is clockwise.
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It is highly unlikly that the earth will ever change the direction of rotation. A strong outside force must be present. But the rotation of the earth is slowing down over time due to the pull from the moon. dont worry if anything does change you will not be here to see it.