Answer 1:
Well, the most obvious effect would be that
the sun would rise in the west and set in the
east as would the stars. This would be called
retrograde rotation. Currently the earth
orbits the sun moving counter clockwise when view
from a location north of the
ecliptic plane .
Now the earth also rotates on its axis in a
counterclockwise fashion. But if the earth rotated
in retrograde then this would also effect the
difference between solar time and sidereal
time .
But other than that and associated effects, there
would not be any outstanding difference as far as
climate, weather and normal day to day stuff.
It would be very strange to watch the sun set
in the east!!
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