According to Google Scholar, there have been 79 citations of that
paper. Likely, the true number of citations is higher.
A more recent paper that might be of interest is "Lunar Core and
Mantle. What Does LLR See?"
http://cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov/lw16/docs/papers/sci_1_Williams_p.pdf
Although I was involved in LLR data analysis as a postdoctoral fellow
at MIT between 1979 and 1981, I concentrated on the intra-annual
variations in the length of day (and their association with changes in
atmospheric angular momentum) rather than the decadal and longer
variations. That work was written up in Nature.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v294/n5843/abs/294730a0.html
Oh, to be a postdoc again (except for the low rate of pay)!
-- Richard
Quoting Rob Seaman <[email protected]>:
On May 24, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Steve Allen wrote:
On Tue 2011-05-24T23:01:35 +0100, Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
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
The paper itself is available from:
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~mjelline/453website/eosc453/E_prints/1999RG900016.pdf
There are a large number of references that would be worth following
up. It would certainly be good to know what's been going on over
the past dozen years while this contingent leap second discussion
has occurred.
Rob
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