Earth’s speed shows it is young

Earth’s speed shows it is young

by | Aug 27, 2015 | Did You Know?

The earth is rotating at 1,674 kilometres per hour (1,046 miles per hour). It is slowing down, thus periodically time is added (a leap second) to our clock. This last happened June 30 2015 at 7:59:59pm. Extrapolating backwards, the earth was travelling much faster in...