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"Robert" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Earth rotates counter-clockwise, viewed from the north. That's why the
sun rises in
the east in most places. The Earth orbits the sun clockwise.

< http://www.nineplanets.org/overview.html >
"The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus,
though all except Mercury are very nearly circular. The orbits
of the planets are all more or less in the same plane (called the
ecliptic and defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit). The ecliptic
is inclined only 7 degrees from the plane of the Sun's equator.
The above diagrams show the relative sizes of the orbits of the
eight planets (plus Pluto) from a perspective somewhat above
the ecliptic (hence their non-circular appearance). They all orbit
in the same direction (counter-clockwise looking down from
above the Sun's north pole); all but Venus, Uranus and Pluto
also rotate in that same sense."

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To a viewer far above the North Pole of Earth, the planets
would appear to move in a counterclockwise direction.

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