What iS the earths defection?

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If it were Jupiter we would all be dead.

On the surface we are in fact, in the atmosphere, we call this layer the Troposphere. the atmosphere extends to around 80 miles up, at that altitude the air is extremely thin, essentially you get to...

Many people believed that the earth was the center of the universe, a geocentric model or Ptolemaic view of the universe. Ancient Greeks and medieval philosophers believed that a round earth was the...

This is a very good question! In simplistic terms all the planets and the Sun are spinning probably because the cloud of gas we formed from was in motion to begin with albeit probably very slowly. ...