Why broom stand up

In a TV broadcast in March , now uploaded to YouTube , CNN meteorologist Chad Myers explained it was possible to balance a broom or an egg at any time of the year not just the spring equinox. Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist from the University of Oxford, told the BBC she could not believe the misinformation being spread online. It's a good party trick.

As one Twitter user commented : "Your broom is able to stand on its own on any day of the year, and Nasa didn't say today was special regarding that". Did you know that due to the gravitational force NASA says you will be able to stand using both legs tomorrow? He also sees the positive in addressing such misunderstandings. It is not the first time Nasa has been linked to nonsense on social media. In , 17 million people watched a Facebook video stream supposedly live broadcast from the International Space Station,.

If this were the case, objects weighing less than brooms would stand alone. While things may float around in New Orleans, or in The Haunted Mansion at Walt Disney World, I did not have random objects weighing less than a broom floating around my house. If it was, the pens on my desk would be floating in the air. The broom can stand by itself because the center of gravity is directly above the edge on which it balances. The bristles are soft enough to spread out a bit at the contact point with the floor and provide a stable base to support the handle and allow the broom to balance.

Of course, believing that it is the alignment of planets, otherworldly beings, or the moons gravitational pull is way more fun to talk about than the real explanation.

I didn't believe it at first but OMG! More Videos Viral standing broom trick sweeping the internet A viral tweet suggests that NASA said Monday was the only day the "standing broom" trick would work, because of the earth's gravitational pull. We couldn't find anything from NASA to support the tweet. Though there was no evidence that NASA ever suggested that gravitational forces would be different on Monday, the tweet, which received more than , likes and was shared more than 60, times, garnered hundreds of responses from people who wanted to participate in the "novelty" of watching a broom stand up by itself.

Anyone see one? The pair posted their own video of them standing up a broom Tuesday, to show that even though the window for the challenge had passed, it was still actionable. The NASA Earth twitter account also weighed in saying "There's no special gravity that only affects brooms, but the Moon's gravity creates tides on Earth.