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Curious Kids: could the Earth ever stop spinning, and what would happen if it did?

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par Jacco van Loon, Astronomer, Keele University

Could the Earth stop spinning, and if it did, what would happen? – Paul, aged 12, Aberdeen, Scotland

The Earth has been spinning since its birth, four and a half billion years ago.

The Earth was made from rubble that was left over when the Sun formed from the collapse of a huge cloud of matter. The rubble that went on to become the Earth circled around the Sun like water does around the plughole when you empty a bathtub, spinning as it went.

The Earth continued…

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