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Chilean Earthquake Likely Shortened Earth's Day By 1.26 Microseconds

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Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, changing the distribution of mass on the planet. This affects the Earth’s rotation, said Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses a computer model to calculate the effects.
“The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Gross, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).”

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Take a good look at this star. It’s an orange dwarf called Gliese 710. Seriously, take a really good look at it. Get your glasses if you have to, granny. Why are you looking so hard at it? Because in about a million years it’s going to run into our solar system. Well, there’s an 86% chance, but in astrology that means it’s pretty much a certainty. Of course by that time with any luck humans will have evolved into hyper-intelligent space travelers and we’re able to find another planet to live on. Click through for the whole story.

Take a good look at this star. It’s an orange dwarf called Gliese 710. Seriously, take a really good look at it. Get your glasses if you have to, granny.

Why are you looking so hard at it? Because in about a million years it’s going to run into our solar system. Well, there’s an 86% chance, but in astrology that means it’s pretty much a certainty. Of course by that time with any luck humans will have evolved into hyper-intelligent space travelers and we’re able to find another planet to live on.

Click through for the whole story.