Lizette Koehler wrote: >Rest easy. The Earth Orientation Center of the International Earth Rotation >Service in Paris says that there will be NO leap second in December 2015.
Oh no! Cruel of them shortening my holiday with 1 sec. ;-) >Of course, if we get hit by large asteroid with sufficient momentum to speed >up or slow down our rate of rotation, then they could change their minds. >(If that happens, I'll let you know their decision, of course.) Not one, but about 1000 of them of different sizes are discovered yearly by NASA. NASA is having fun trying to track all those NEOs... (Near Earth Objects) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/neo/neo_flash.cfm http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/neo20130624.html#.VZvfky6ChzU Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
