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Ep. 109 How Long Is A Day?

I Wish You Were Dead

English - April 05, 2023 10:30 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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*Everyone* knows that there's 365 days in a year, and 24 hours in a day. Or are there??? In this impromptu episode, Gavin tells Mike about how time gets funky throughout the geologic record.




Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new Pokemon Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIgFW91jPXc




Episode Links:

Article 1 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/fossilized-coral-calendar-changes-leap-day/471180/

Article 2 https://newatlas.com/science/dinosaurs-shorter-days-longer-years-fossil-shells/

Bivalve Paper https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019PA003723

NASA Animation https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/429/the-moons-orbit-and-rotation/


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