What on Earth is spin? - Brian Jones
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Why does the Earth spin? Does a basketball falling from a spinning merry-go-round fall in a curve, as it appears to, or in a straight line? How can speed be manipulated while spinning? In short, why is the spinning motion so special? Brian Jones details the dizzyingly wide array of ways that spinning affects our lives.
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With very few exceptions, everything in the solar system spins the same way. The sun, the Earth, the orbit of the earth around the sun, the rotation of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—all are in the same direction. How does this help support the idea that the sun and the planets that orbit it were all created from a single collapsing cloud of dust and gas?
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- Educator Brian Jones
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