3E-8 radians is 0.03 microradians. A microradian is about 5 arc-seconds, so about 0.15 arc-seconds per year. I think that's in the range that could be observed either optically or by VLBI.
-John ============= > How would one go about verifying this? The angular difference after 1 > year is about 3E-8 radians, which is probably well beyond the absolute > pointing accuracy of any telescope, and swamped by lunar tidal > deceleration anyway. > > Henry > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:36 PM, mc0fred <mc0f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Interesting that the effect could be this large. >> >> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/chilean-quake-shifted-earths-axis-nasa-scientist-20100302-peqe.html?autostart=1 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
