{"id":5745,"date":"2010-06-16T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2010-06-16T03:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T08:00:24","slug":"leons-getting-larger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5745","title":{"rendered":"Leon&#039;s Getting Larger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=earth-rotation-summer-solstice\">Fact or Fiction: The Days (and Nights) Are Getting Longer<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forces from afar conspire to put the brakes on our spinning world\u2014ocean tides generated by both the moon and sun&#8217;s gravity add 1.7 milliseconds to the length of a day each century, although that figure changes on geologic timescales. The moon is slowly spiraling away from Earth as it drives day-stretching tides, a phenomenon recorded in rocks and fossils that provides clues to the satellite&#8217;s origin and ultimate fate. &#8220;You&#8217;re putting energy into the moon&#8217;s orbit and taking it out of the Earth&#8217;s spin,&#8221; says James Williams, a senior research scientist at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact or Fiction: The Days (and Nights) Are Getting Longer Forces from afar conspire to put the brakes on our spinning world\u2014ocean tides generated by both the moon and sun&#8217;s gravity add 1.7 milliseconds to the length of a day &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5745\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}