In July 6, 2007, the Guinness Book of Records recorded the nose of Mehmet Ozyurekas the biggest nose in the world. It measured 8.8 centimeters or 3.5 inches. He currently resides in the City of Artvin in Turkey. However, an individual named Faizan Agha recently broke this record.
Tweet. It actually takes the Earth 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.06 seconds to make one rotation on its axis, not 24 hours. This is called a sidereal day, and is the amount of time that it takes the Earth to make a full rotation on its axis and end up in the same position relative to the stars.
Just think of a top, or record, or wheel. All these things spin around a center point which we call an axis. This type of motion is called rotation, so the amount of time it takes an object to rotate is called a rotational period. It takes the Earth 23 hours, 56 minutes to rotate on its axis. We call the rotational period of Earth a day. Mars takes just a little longer to rotate, at 24 hours, 37 minutes. The Moon is much slower than either Earth or Mars. It takes over 655 hours for the Moon to turn just once on its axis--that's more than 27 days! Second, all the planets and moons in our solar system also move around other things.