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  2. Earth is spinning faster than usual, but why? What experts ...

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    July 26 neared the newly-set record, at 1.50 milliseconds shorter than usual, according to timeanddate.com. The shortened days are caused by the Earth spinning faster than usual, Interesting ...

  3. A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a ...

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    For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may ...

  4. Earth's rotation - Wikipedia

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    Earth's movement along its nearly circular orbit while it is rotating once around its axis requires that Earth rotate slightly more than once relative to the fixed stars before the mean Sun can pass overhead again, even though it rotates only once (360°) relative to the mean Sun. [n 5] Multiplying the value in rad/s by Earth's equatorial ...

  5. Inner core super-rotation - Wikipedia

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    Waves were observed to travel faster between north and south than along the equatorial plane. A model for the inner core with uniform anisotropy had a direction of fastest travel tilted at an angle 10° from the spin axis of the Earth. [15] Since then, the model for the anisotropy has become more complex. The top 100 kilometers are isotropic.

  6. Atmospheric super-rotation - Wikipedia

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    Atmospheric super-rotation is a phenomenon where a planet's atmosphere rotates faster than the planet itself. This behavior is observed in the atmospheres of Venus, Titan, Jupiter, and Saturn. Venus exhibits the most extreme super-rotation, with its atmosphere circling the planet in four Earth days, much faster than the planet's own rotation of ...

  7. Earth Is Spinning Faster Than Usual, Giving Us the ... - AOL

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    This minuscule change in time means we might need to consider a negative leap second.

  8. Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen. - AOL

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    The study included data from 1993 through 2010, and showed that the pumping of as much as 2,150 gigatons of groundwater has caused a change in the Earth’s tilt of roughly 31.5 inches. The ...

  9. Global surface temperature - Wikipedia

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    Global surface temperature (GST) is the average temperature of Earth's surface. More precisely, it is the weighted average of the temperatures over the ocean and land. The former is also called sea surface temperature and the latter is called surface air temperature. Temperature data comes mainly from weather stations and satellites.