Data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission has enabled the creation of a detailed catalog of asteroid rotations ...

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Although the Earth completes one full rotation in 86,400 seconds on average, that spin fluctuates by a millisecond or two every day. Before 2020, the Earth never experienced a day shorter than the ...

In the case of planet Earth, moving water away from the equator towards higher elevations spreads mass slightly further from the planet's axis of rotation. That added distance causes the Earth's spin ...