Billion-year conspiracy between Sun and Moon prevented 60-hour days
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Earth's days would have been 60 hours long. But then the Moon
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For A Billion Years, Earth's Days Were Just 19 Hours Long
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Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic
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