Then supposing that the earth does weigh relatively the same,
how does it effect the rotation of the earth, orbit of the earth
when we do remove weight from our sphere by sending things into
space? Also, the rotation of the Earth has been slowing
throughout its history. The first days were only 6.5 hours! "The
Geophysical Effects of the Earth's Slowing Rotation!" Did the
fast spinning Earth have a ring around it when it was very
young? When the Earth was very young, its faster rotation caused
it to have a much larger equatorial circumference than it has at
the present time. It may have been spinning fast enough to have
a "Saturn type ring" around it. It is well known that the
rotation of planet Earth is gradually slowing. For four and one
half billion years, its entire lifetime, its rate of rotation
has been gradually slowing. As the Earth loses its kinetic
energy due to all forms of friction acting on it; tides,
galactic space dust, solar wind, space weather, geomagnetic
storms, etc., like any flywheel, it w