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Earth's Chandler Wobble Changed Dramatically in 2005
Technology Review ^ | August 31, 2009 | Physics arXiv Blog

Posted on 02/23/2013 1:31:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: bigheadfred
It is a left brain, right brain exercise. To see her spinning both ways means you are switching between your right brain and left brain.

Looking at it on my phone and when I look straight on at her she spins from right to left. When I change my phone angle to about 75 degrees she started spinning left to right. Hmmmm...

I wonder what that means?

I'm sure the Bush's are involved somehow...

61 posted on 02/23/2013 5:30:45 PM PST by bayliving (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country!)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s always the fault of the Republicans ... Gov. Christie?


62 posted on 02/23/2013 5:50:09 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The Progressive mind...an arid ethical and moral wasteland!)
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63 posted on 02/23/2013 5:50:37 PM PST by bgill
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting, thanks for posting,

Reminds me of the following and makes me wonder if some future Earthquake(s), or similar natural seismic event/upheaval is what leads to this:

“Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.” Isaiah 24:1

“the earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.” Isaiah 24:19-23


64 posted on 02/23/2013 6:08:29 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m no scientist, but did study the 12 perturbations of Earth’s motion in an astronomy class in college. My gut instinct is that if you take all the perturbations collectively there will be some harmonic relationship that causes this. In other words, all the perturbations have some effect on the others and eventually this harmonic situation maybe could arise from this.


65 posted on 02/23/2013 6:35:32 PM PST by lwoodham (I am Andrew Breitbart. Don't doubt me on this.)
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The different forces at work are mostly just the Moon and Sun. The Moon produces 2/3rds of the tides, the Sun the other 1/3rd; the Sun also beams energy at one side of the Earth at a time. The Earth’s motion through space is a bit of a double twist, as its axial tilt changes throughout the annual orbit around the Sun, and the lunar orbit crosses the axis at a different place each day thanks to the month (both synodic and sidereal) not being evenly divisible into the year.


66 posted on 02/23/2013 7:32:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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If I look directly at the figure, she is turning clockwise. However if I look away, she is turning counter-clockwise in my peripheral vision.


67 posted on 02/24/2013 9:16:47 AM PST by TheOldLady
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Geophysicist Discovers Why Earth ‘Wobbles’ [ 2004 ]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1857129/posts


68 posted on 12/25/2015 6:23:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic is from 2/23/2013. Now adding to GGG.
Chandler Wobble is seasonal, caused by shifts of mass at the surface (snowfall, thaw) -- imagine if you will the result of a sudden, massive shift of mass from ocean onto land, accumulating as snow and ice...
69 posted on 12/25/2015 8:08:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting book on the subject:

http://www.amazon.com/Latitude-American-Astronomers-Mystery-Variation/product-reviews/1557500169/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending


70 posted on 12/26/2015 6:23:16 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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