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- From: dag@col.hp.com (David Geiser)
- Subject: Re: ROTATION OF THE MOON
- Sender: news@col.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.144441.5498@col.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:44:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.163804.1213@sunspot.noao.edu>
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- > The same thing is happening, much more slowly, to the earth --
- > friction with the tides and within the "solid" earth is slowing the
- > rotation rate by something on the order of 1 sec every century. We can
- > actually measure it (the slowdown) nowadays. Love those atomic clocks!
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- Do you know if that rate is constant? Say around 63M years ago,
- around the time of the end of the dinosaurs, the day would have
- been 175 hrs longer!
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- To the cat, the experimenter is problematic.
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