On Feb 10, 2012, at 8:37 PM, Steve Allen wrote: > On Fri 2012-02-10T17:54:28 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ: >> http://www.universetoday.com/93494/is-venus-rotation-slowing-down/ > > We need a Venus lander which can remain in operation for a year while > delta VLBI measurements are made of its transmissions.
Apparently we'll need it to last a few decades or centuries. > In other news, folks who need to keep track of sunshine on the Mars > rover might want to patronize > http://www.executivejewelers.com/jewelscart2000/store/jewelscart2000_listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=10 Or for the Martian Nevil Maskelynes among us: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/rover/mars.sundial.lh.html > but the real tear jerker of the day is how leap seconds might be > related to the lack of births of virtual pony babies Words have finally failed me. Rob _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
