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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 was just 1.59 milliseconds shorter than any other day, and all because slight ‘wobbles’ of the earth, According to the scholars.
The average day lasts 86,400 seconds, or 24 hours, but timanddate.com You reported that June 29 was 1.59 milliseconds shorter than that. On this day, the Earth made a millisecond revolution in less than 24 hours.
This slight “oscillation” made today the shortest day ever since the beginning of atomic clocks. According to Insider It is not uncommon for the Earth to “sway” because it is not a perfect sphere.
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Other causes of the Earth’s “wobbles” are Oceanic tides, lunar gravity, and climate and processes in the Earth’s inner or outer layers, according to Timeanddate.com. The website reports that the Earth has accelerated over the years. In 2020, it was reported that the Earth had had 28 of its shortest days since measurements using atomic clocks began in the 1960s. Now, in 2022, the Earth is still spinning faster with the shortest day on record being June 29.
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plenty Scientists associate change quickly into something called “Chandler Wobble”, that is, when there is a file A change in the Earth’s rotation on the axis. Insider reports that Seth Carlo Chandler saw the first “Chandler Wobble” movie in the late 1880s.
Although “Wobble” shortened Wednesday’s weather, the event doesn’t change much in our daily lives.
Ashlyn Messier is a staff writer for Fox News Digital.
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