In message <cabbxvhtyrbaqy8tlvdxxsvkjmlvf8lzgcn1q266ybmy9f13...@mail.gmail.com> , Chris Albertson writes:
>The Earth's rotation is always refferenced to a larger reference frame >of distant stars, not the sun. It's actually distant quarsars, and the point being that they are so far away that any cross-field motion they might or might not have would not represent a parallax error in our measurements of their posisiton. The measurements are done with VLBI, which is a good google search to learn more about this. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
