Help w/ Astronomical question

[Dave Monroe]

Realize this has been answered to yr satisfaction, but
thought these some nifty sites you might be interested
in nonetheless ...

http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

For some reason, the North American mirrors (sub "to"
for "ch") aren't working, but these loaded up
instantly for me, so ... and see as well ...

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/arot.html

Although, now that I think of it, none of these seem
actually to answer YOUR question, but ...



--- Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> Can anyone answer this question and provide a
> reference? It has been bugging me for awhile:
> 
> It would seem logical that as the earth revolves
> around the sun, it rotates in the same direction,
> i.e., that part of the earth which is experiencing
> night- turned away from the sun- at any given time
> is spinning in the same direction as the direction
> of revolution. This is purely an assumption, and
> however logical it may seem, the earth could be
> rotating so that the side experiencing day is
> rotating in the same direction as direction of
> revolution. Which is the reality?

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