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frutigeryesterday at 6:00 PM1 replyview on HN

> We aren't actually sure what gave our core the spin it has, right?

We are, it’s from the conservation of angular momentum. The material that made our planet also had a non-zero angular momentum.


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monster_truckyesterday at 8:05 PM

No we aren't. That's a theory that barely fits the lower bound of what we estimate the spin of the core to be