Wednesday, July 3, 2019

A Faster Earth (part 6)


It is believed that the moon formed after something huge crashed into the Earth. If this type of event were to happen again, with a large object crashing into the Earth, our planet might be distorted into a more elliptical shape rather than a round sphere. It could potentially spin so rapidly at that point that a day might only be a few hours long! However, this would be the least of our concerns, because if an object large enough to influence the Earth's spin crashed into the surface, we'd all be wiped out anyway!

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