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2009 to Arrive Not a Second Too Soon
Live Science ^ | 26 December 2008 | Joe Rao

Posted on 12/27/2008 4:39:22 AM PST by CE2949BB

Wait a second. The start of next year will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone's control. Time will stand still for one second on New Year's Eve, as we ring in the New Year on that Wednesday night. As a result, you'll have an extra second to celebrate because a "Leap Second" will be added to 2008 to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks.

By international agreement, the world's timekeepers, in order to keep their official atomic clocks in step with the world's irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: leap; leapsecond; newyear; science; time

1 posted on 12/27/2008 4:39:22 AM PST by CE2949BB
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To: CE2949BB

super-accurate clocks ??? Apparently not.


2 posted on 12/27/2008 6:35:26 AM PST by UB355
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To: CE2949BB

Global warming. Bush’s fault.


3 posted on 12/27/2008 7:11:10 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
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To: Nightshift

gnip...


4 posted on 12/27/2008 9:16:04 AM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: CE2949BB

DemocRATs apoplectic as they realize George Bush’s second term will be extended, albeit by one second.


5 posted on 12/30/2008 9:08:02 PM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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