Why are Earth’s days getting longer? Scientists are still looking for the answer - Scroll.in


8/7/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago
by Matt King, The Conversation

Some have speculated that this change is related to the ‘Chandler wobble’ – a small deviation in Earth’s rotation axis with a period of about 430 days.

Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists dont know why. This has critical impacts not just on… [+5133 chars]

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