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Re: Navigation News article on leap seconds.
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 Oct 9, 18:09 -0400
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 Oct 9, 18:09 -0400
But if a billion Chinese each picked up a rock and threw it eastward, once a day every day, the Earth would accordingly spin faster. It is left as a trivial calculation to the reader to determine the required mass of the rocks to offset the typical slowing of the earth.