> I hear in the Media that the earth quake sped the rotation of the earth up..
http://tinyurl.com/4pwgkte http://earthsky.org/earth/richard-gross-japan-earthquake-shortened-earths-day- 1-8-millionths-of-a-second It says: shortened Earth's day by 1.8 millionths of a second Here is the JPL/NASA press release: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-080 > Does this mean that we will not need to 'insert leap seconds' for a while, > or does it mean that we will need to retract leap seconds that have been > added? I think the right question is: Will they be able to confirm the prediction? 2 microseconds per day is under a ms per year. That's not very big on the scale of a whole second. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
