Thu. Jul 4th, 2024

A study conducted by scientists from the Technical University of Munich revealed that the Earth’s day will extend to 25 hours instead of the current 24 hours, within the next 200 million years.

The study expected that the number of days in the year would decrease from 365 to 350 days as a result of the Earth’s rotation slowing down.

The change in Earth’s rotation speed is due to multiple factors including the effects of the Moon’s gravity, as well as changes in the distribution of mass within the planet.

The Moon, which was much closer to the Earth in the past, played a decisive role in gradually reducing the Earth’s rotation speed, and this effect is expected to continue in the future.

With these potential changes, scientists raise questions about how this extension in time will affect daily life and ecosystems on our planet.

It is noteworthy that the origin of the Moon is still subject to multiple theories, starting with the giant collision hypothesis, which assumes that a huge body the size of Mars, called “Theia,” collided with the Earth and led to the disintegration of Theia and the Earth, and over time, these materials attracted and gathered to form the Moon.

The second hypothesis states that the Moon separated from the Earth during its formation from a rotating disk of dust and gas. The third theory assumes that the Moon formed elsewhere in the solar system and was then captured by Earth’s gravity. The final hypothesis suggests that the Moon formed from a disk of debris rotating around Earth, then merged with another body to form the current Moon.

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