RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 12, 2017 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2017 at 11:41 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 12, 2017 at 11:29 am)vorlon13 Wrote: With the laser range finding experiments, the position of the moon is literally known to an accuracy of inches.
A sudden discrepancy would definitely be brown trousers time.
A surprise change in the universal gravitational constant would be a bummer.
(August 12, 2017 at 11:31 am)vorlon13 Wrote: IIRC, due to ice movements and weather related shifts in where the rain is, the precise location of the earth's surface intercepting the moon's shadow is less precisely knowable than where the moon is relative to the center of mass of the earth.
Yes, meters rather than centimeters
