Does the mass of earth affect its speed of rotation?

Subject: Does the mass of earth affect its speed of rotation?

Date: Tue May 2 08:11:22 2000
Posted by mark warnock
Grade level: teacher/prof School: university of michigan
City: ann arbor State/Province: mi Country: usa
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 957273082.As

Message:


I understand that cosmic junk is constantly bombarding earth...will this 
increase its circumference.  If so...does this increase in mass affect the 
rotation speed (making days last longer through time).  Were days shorter 
then millions of years ago on earth?

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