Rob Seaman said: > So, if the moment of inertia increases by 0.2 parts per million, the angular > velocity must decrease by the same amount to keep the angular momentum > constant. If this unfortunate occurrence happened in the current day, length > of day would thus increase by 0.017 SI-seconds. This would require a leap > second six times per year to accommodate. > > ...and this is *still* within the scope of the current definition of UTC to > accommodate - plus a comfy factor of two for monthly Shannon-Nyquist sampling.
Um, this is at a time when LOD is about 172800 seconds. That's a leap second *every second*. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: [email protected] | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
