In other words, days are getting longer. Geologists believe that an Earth day was originally five to six hours long. If the moon had been less massive, thereby creating less drag on Earth, our planet wouldn't have slowed down as much. The day would be, perhaps, 15 hours long.
Bartolomeu Dias Born-1457 Bartolomeu DIas sponsers Almost everyone that explored in the old days had to have a sponser an the person that sponsered Bartolomeus expedition was King Henry II he sponsered this expedition because he wanted to find a new route to china to trade spices with them but instead DIas found or really discovered the southern tip of Africa an King Henry II named it Cape of Good Hope Bartolomeu Dias discoveries an characteristics Positive and Negative effects Died-1500 ...
Dias lost sight of the coast at 20Â° south latitude when his ship was caught in a storm which lasted thirteen days. When the seas and sky finally cleared, Dias sailed in an easterly direction, hoping once again to see land. With no success sailing east, he made the decision to turn northward. He landed in Mossel Bay, on the coast of present-day South Africa, on February 3, 1488. In May 1488, on his return voyage to Portugal, Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hope, near the southern tip of Africa. Dias originally named it the Cape of Storms because of all the violent storms in the area.