#earth-rotation

#earth-rotation

As the moon continues to move further away, the number of seconds, minutes and eventually hours in a day will also gradually increase - but it's likely none of us alive today will be around to notice it. 'Don't worry, these effects are so small,' he wrote on The Conversation. '1.5 inches per year compared to a distance of 239,000 miles (384,000 km) is just 0.00000001 per cent per year. 'We'll keep having eclipses, tides and days that last 24 hours for millions of years.'

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service has predicted that July 22 could come out about a millisecond short of a standard 24-hour spin.

Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world, pushing Earth's geographic poles away from its axis of rotation.

On July 9, the world experienced one of the shortest days in recorded history, at 1.3 milliseconds shorter than the average day.

Earth will spin faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, taking approximately 1.3 to 1.51 milliseconds less than the usual 24-hour period.