Is the speed of the earth's rotation constant?
The Earth's rotation is very close to constant, but over millions of years, the rotation is significantly slowed by gravitational interactions with the Moon; both rotational energy and angular momentum is being slowly transferred to the Moon. ChaCha on!
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