Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second local noon. The sidereal day is just a little bit shorter—approximately 23 ...

Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

The cause of this acceleration is not explained," Leonid Zotov, expert on Earth rotation, explained. "Ocean and atmospheric models don’t explain this huge acceleration." ...

"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek.

While it didn’t disrupt Earth’s North-South axis, around which the planet rotates, it did move what’s called the “figure axis” by about 33 feet (10 metres).

As confirmed by NASA and the Goddard Space Flight Center, this has caused the Earth's axis of rotation to shift by about two centimeters, lengthening the days by about 0.06 microseconds.

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