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Explain the day and night cycle on earth occurs what would have to happen to cause the day-and-night cycle on earth to take more than 24 hours to occur?
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∙ 11y ago
we get farther from the sun, the sun getts farther from us, solar eclipses, lunar eclipses. And if our tilt was more than 19.5 degrees. moving the Earth a few hundred thousand miles could have a catastrophic effect on life. also a longer orbit like jupiter.
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∙ 14y agoThe angular speed of the Earth would have to slow down. For it to noticeably happen within our lifetimes, it would take some cataclysmic event like a large asteroid crashing into the planet.
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