Earth's rotation
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Earth's rotation is the rotation of the solid Earth around its own axis. The Earth rotates from the west towards the east. As viewed from the North Star or polestar Polaris, the Earth turns counter-clockwise.
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See also
- Allais effect
- Axial precession (astronomy)
- Diurnal cycle
- Earth's orbit
- Formation and evolution of the Solar System
- Geodesic (in mathematics)
- Geodesic (general relativity) (in physics)
- Geodesy
- Giant impact hypothesis
- History of Earth
- History of geodesy, Space techniques
- Important publications in geodesy
- Newcomb's formula
- Spherical Earth
- World Geodetic System, WGS 84
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