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To: cajuncow
Saturday's quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.

Another Yahoo article has it as 1.26 milliseconds.

So, which is it? This is important! I need to know how much my misery has been reduced each day - by the negligible one millionth of a second, or the more significant one thousandth of a second.

16 posted on 03/02/2010 11:05:01 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Be strip-searched by scanners!! Buy ObamaCare or go to jail!! The Totalitarians are in charge!!)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

” JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how Earth’s rotation should have changed as a result of the Feb. 27 quake. Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).”

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2504


17 posted on 03/02/2010 11:13:09 AM PST by cajuncow
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