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Ocean current slowdown made Earth spin faster - environment - 11 February 2012 - New Scientist

Ocean current slowdown made Earth spin faster - environment - 11 February 2012 - New Scientist | Science News | Scoop.it

IT SOMETIMES feels as though some months go by faster than others, but November 2009 really did. Events in the Southern Ocean conspired to make the Earth spin ever-so-slightly faster, shortening half of the days in the month by 0.1 milliseconds each.

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Astronomers reveal a rapidly spinning core inside old stars

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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers led by PhD student Paul Beck from Leuven University in Belgium have managed to look deep inside some old stars and discovered that their cores spin at least ten times as fast as their surfaces.
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