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To: nextage; Maximus of Texas
NASA scientists using data from the Indonesian earthquake calculated it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters. The earthquake that created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth's rotation.

Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and Dr. Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. said all earthquakes have some affect on Earth's rotation. It's just they are usually barely noticeable.

"Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, from seasonal weather down to driving a car," Chao said.

Stop jumping! You're rocking the world!

16 posted on 02/03/2006 6:00:25 AM PST by Chanticleer (May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
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To: Chanticleer

It ain't me, I promise!


18 posted on 02/03/2006 6:13:23 AM PST by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, unleash hell)
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