Wednesday, March 3, 2010

DAYS ARE SHORTER NOW!

The title caught my attention on yahoo news!

So i went to read on it and it's reported:

"The powerful earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday probably shifted the Earth's axis and made days slightly shorter, a NASA scientist said.

If, indeed, the planet's axis did shift by eight centimeters during the Chilean quake, days would have shortened by 1.26 microsecsonds, Gross calculated.

A microsecond is one-millionth of a second, so no need to adjust watches just yet."

Nothing panicky as compared to the earthquake that just happened.

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