Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” astronomy.com Submitted by clayt6 t3_10lx2s9 on January 26, 2023 at 5:19 PM in space 82 comments 622
SyntheticSlime t1_j6aa4bk wrote on January 28, 2023 at 9:57 PM Is this why days have been shortening slightly? We used to need leap seconds at regular intervals, but they’ve been less common recently. Permalink 1
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