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Why does earth spin anticlockwise?

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Why does earth spin anticlockwise?

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The Earth spins the way it does (whatever you want to call it) because of conservation of angular momentum. The net spin of the protoplanetary disk that condensed to form the Earth (and all the other satellites of the Sun) was in that direction, so the Earth spins that direction as well.

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