- How can we prove that earth is rotating? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/77zg77/how_can_we_prove_that_earth_is_rotating/ 28 comments askscience
- What is the mass of rotation of Earth? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4yup27/what_is_the_mass_of_rotation_of_earth/ 9 comments askscience
- Saudi Muslim cleric claims the Earth is 'stationary' and the sun rotates around it http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-muslim-cleric-claims-the-earth-is-stationary-and-the-sun-rotates-around-it-10053516.html 41 comments worldnews
- Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation http://futureofutc.org/ 15 comments programming
- Set a Rotating Picture of the Earth as Your Ubuntu Wallpaper http://lifehacker.com/5556316/set-a-rotating-picture-of-the-earth-as-your-ubuntu-wallpaper 35 comments linux
- Rotation of the Earth as an Energy Source http://www.dotphys.net/files/earth_rotate.html 25 comments science
- Time Lapse Video Showing Earth's Rotation http://axiomsun.com/home/video/time_lapse_showing_earths_rotation.html 5 comments reddit.com
- Earth’s Inner Core Not Just Rotates, but Oscillates Too: Study https://frontstory.io/earths-inner-core-not-just-rotates-but-oscillates-too-study/ 4 comments space
- Is there a way to use the rotation of the earth as a dynamo to generate power? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/amx2rd/is_there_a_way_to_use_the_rotation_of_the_earth/ 6 comments askscience
- Today (June 30) will be 1 second longer than usual, due to Earth's rotational slowdown http://www.space.com/16380-leap-second-earth-rotation-moon.html 7 comments science
- Beautiful. Original video of the earlier one showing the Earth rotating around the sky. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/30/very-large-telescope-very-stunning-time-lapse-video/ 10 comments science
- El niño slowing down the Earth's rotation http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/longday.html 2 comments science
- Why is Earth rotating? Did it always have the same rotation period? Will it always have the same rotation period? (NASA) https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/dr-marc-earth/earth-rotation.html 6 comments space
- if the earth is constantly rotating AND orbiting the sun then HOW is the north star always due north? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4z7o0s/if_the_earth_is_constantly_rotating_and_orbiting/ 6 comments askscience
- I don't get it: why it is OK for a core developer to believe that sun rotates around the Earth, but it is not OK to believe that Wright is Satoshi https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hywl4/i_dont_get_it_why_it_is_ok_for_a_core_developer/ 77 comments btc
- Earth's Inner Core May Have Started Rotating in the Opposite Direction https://www.newsweek.com/earth-inner-core-rotation-appears-reversing-1775775 65 comments space
- Do really tall buildings have to factor earth's rotation into their structure since the tangential velocity would be higher at the top than at the bottom? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6vzsy8/do_really_tall_buildings_have_to_factor_earths/ 9 comments askscience
- What would it be like if Earth's orbit was 24 hours, and took 365 days to rotate? https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/5gdv3x/what_would_it_be_like_if_earths_orbit_was_24/ 56 comments space
- Venus' rotation and of its orbit are synchronized such that it always presents the same face toward Earth at closest approach. http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/venus.html 5 comments science
- What coordinate system do various space missions use? Are different ones used for different missions (e.g. centered on Earth and rotating, centered on the Sun and stationary, etc)? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5me0wu/what_coordinate_system_do_various_space_missions/ 4 comments askscience
- Earth's daily rotation period encoded in an atomic-level protein structure http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150625145232.htm 4 comments science
- Scientists Create Extra Second of Summer - Leap Second Added to Keep Up with Earth's Changing Rotational Motions http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/29/wait-for-it-earth-adds-leap-second-saturday-night/ 2 comments science
- Beautiful time lapse shot illustrating the Earth's rotation relative to the night sky http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0712/2007_09_14-orion-lq_vangorp1200.jpg 14 comments science
- You’ve heard of a leap year, but what about a leap second? A physicist explains what is messing with the Earth’s rotation https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/04/02/climate-change-earth-rotation-day-length/ 26 comments space
- Is it pure coincidence that the rotation rates of Mars and Earth are both 24 hours (-4 & +39 min)? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6oovsv/is_it_pure_coincidence_that_the_rotation_rates_of/ 32 comments askscience
- New research has revealed the importance of a circadian body clock that matches the rotational speed of the Earth. http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/news/articles/?id=rotation-speed-may-be-bad-news-for-red-planet-pioneers 583 comments science
- Scientists reveal that the rotation of Earth's core holds a clue to understanding global sea-level rise http://www.phys.org/news/2015-12-scientists-reveal-rotation-earth-core.html 10 comments science
- GOP Rep Louie Gohmert ridiculed for asking whether US gov’t can change Earth’s rotation https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/louie-gohmert-earth-orbit-moon-climate-change-b1862732.html 126 comments politics
- Is the coriolis effect mostly due to the Earth rotating, the friction difference of the atmosphere between space and a moving Earth, or the fact Earth is spherical? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/acjpft/is_the_coriolis_effect_mostly_due_to_the_earth/ 7 comments askscience
- On this Day, 167 years ago (actually I'm one day late): a 32-year-old Frenchman definitively demonstrated that the Earth indeed rotated, with a simple pendulum. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-does-foucaults-pendulum-prove-earth-rotates-180968024/ 37 comments europe
- Longer Days Led to Oxygen Buildup on Early Earth: Researchers propose that some of the planet’s earliest photosynthesizers benefited from a slowing of the Earth’s rotation that allowed them to produce a surplus of oxygen and paved the way for more complex life. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/longer-days-led-to-oxygen-buildup-on-early-earth-study-69055 11 comments science
- Earth turned faster at the end of the time of the dinosaurs than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the current 365, according to a new study of fossil mollusk shells from the late Cretaceous. This means a day used to laste only 23 & a half hours 70 million years ago. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019pa003723 41 comments science
- A study co-authored by hundreds of physicists, "The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth," is only one sentence long: "So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth." https://improbable.com/airchives/classical/articles/peanut_butter_rotation.html 18 comments nottheonion
- Venus' thick atmosphere pushes hard enough to shorten the planet's days by two minutes per Venus day. The planet rotates once every 243 Earth days, but the atmosphere rotates in just 4. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/venus-thick-atmosphere-speeds-planets-spin?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r_science 16 comments science
- There is one year to go until asteroid 2015 TB145 approaches Earth once again, just as it did in 2015 around the night of Halloween. This dark object measures between 625 and 700 metres, its rotation period is around three hours and, in certain lighting conditions, it resembles a human skull. http://www.agenciasinc.es/en/news/the-halloween-asteroid-prepares-to-return-in-2018 885 comments space
- Upsurge in big earthquakes predicted for 2018 as Earth rotation slows - Scientists say number of severe quakes is likely to rise strongly next year because of a periodic slowing of the Earth’s rotation https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/18/2018-set-to-be-year-of-big-earthquakes 21 comments worldnews
- If the were stood at the peak of the tallest mountain, and the earth was to instantly stop rotating, sending you launching forward, would you have enough for force to reach an orbit? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6q24ft/if_the_were_stood_at_the_peak_of_the_tallest/ 7 comments askscience
- Greenland and Antarctic melt isn’t just raising seas — it’s changing the Earth’s rotation: In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself is also moving. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/04/08/the-melting-of-greenland-and-antarctica-isnt-just-raising-seas-its-changing-the-earths-rotation/ 96 comments worldnews
- The Paris Observatory has announced it will add a "leap second" to the last minute of June this year to compensate for a slight slowdown in the Earth's rotation - and the news has the finance world nervous. http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/06/30/11/30/leap-second-added-to-june-calendar 8 comments worldnews
- The Fastest-Spinning Object Ever Made - "The rotation rate is so fast that the angular acceleration at the sphere surface is 1 billion times that of gravity on the Earth surface" http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made/279198/#comments 3 comments science