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To: The Cajun
It has a radius of about 1,220km, but is growing by about 0.5mm each year.

LOL, One would think the actual radius would be known if annual growth was determined to the sub millimeter.

13 posted on 07/10/2013 9:46:47 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

Bingo! “Our guesswork is accurate to a fraction of a millimeter!”


14 posted on 07/10/2013 9:48:10 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Errant
The inner core started to solidify more than a billion years ago. It has a radius of about 1,220km, but is growing by about 0.5mm each year.

The entire sentence kind of gave me one of those *Yeah right* moments :)

15 posted on 07/10/2013 9:51:16 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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