On Tue 2011-05-24T23:01:35 +0100, Clive D.W. Feather hath writ: > Lunar laser ranging says that the length of day is increasing by about > 2.3ms per century in the long term. > > But how long term is that?
40 years > Does anyone have figures on how far back or > forward I can project based on that figure? What was the length of the day > in the time of the dinosaurs? If there's a better reference than Williams somebody please say so. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2000/1999RG900016.shtml -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
