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Almost every day scientist find something interesting and amazing about our world. New information may greatly change our opinion about many usual things. But there are facts that are known for a long time. But we still don’t know what to do in order to reverse their influnce. And one of them is the Earth’s rotation. More exactly, slowing of it.
Do you know anything about that? We at “Smart is the new sexy” do. We have collected different facts and are ready to prest them for you.
Facts from ancient astronomers
The work of ancient astronomers reveals that the Earth's spin is slowing down — though not as much as scientists believed.
Each century, the length of the solar day, or the time it takes the planet to do a full rotation, grows by 1.8 milliseconds, according to a new study using astronomical observations going back to 750 B.C. Researchers have known that the planet's rotation is slowing because of friction caused by the tides, as water that's being tugged on by the moon's gravity sloshes against the solid Earth. However, measurements of this tidal effect suggest that the planet should be slowing in its rotation by 2.3 milliseconds per century, slightly more than the new research finds.
The difference between 2.3 milliseconds and 1.8 milliseconds over a century may seem trivial. But those fractions of milliseconds are important for understanding the ways that the Earth has changed shape since the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago.

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