2024-01-16 06:30:00
Martes, 01/16/2024 – 07:30
The Earth rotates increasingly slowly on its axis. That is the conclusion reached by a group of German scientists and which indicates that, in the future, one day it could last 25 hours and not 24 hours as happens today.
Using a ultra-precise underground laser It’s like researchers the Technical University of Munich (TUM) They have measured the speed of the Earth’s rotation, reached the aforementioned conclusion and specified when this lengthening of the length of the days will occur: within 200 years.
But before that happens completely, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate on itself will grow little by little and almost imperceptibly.
The fact is that this progressive slowing of the Earth’s rotation is nothing new. The aforementioned scientists claim that 1.5 billion years ago days lasted 18 hours and 41 minutes, while dinosaurs already enjoyed 23-hour days 66 million years ago.
The explanation for this slowdown that the Earth suffers When it comes to rotating on itself, it must be sought in the internal movements of the solid and liquid components of the planet and in the changes in the distribution of the Earth’s mass, the gravitational interactions with the moon and the sun and the oscillation of its axis, according to the same researchers.
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