Re: The Earth is smaller than assumed
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- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:47:27 GMT
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/uob-tei070507.php
New measurements show a difference of serveral millimeters
This release is available in German.
http://www.eurekalert.org/staticrel.php?view=ub070520071ger
Although the discrepancy is not large, it is significant: Geodesists
from the University of Bonn have remeasured the size of the Earth in
a
long lasting international cooperation project. The blue planet is
accordingly some millimeters smaller than up to now assumed. The
results
are important, for example, to be able to demonstrate a climate
contingent rise in sea level. The results have now appeared in the
renowned Journal of Geodesy.
The system of measurement used by the Bonn Geodesists is invisible.
It
consists of radiowaves that are transmitted into space from
punctiform
sources, the so-called Quasars. A network of more than 70 radio
telescopes worldwide receives these waves. Because the gaging
stations
are so far apart from each other, the radio signals are received
with a
slight time-lag. "From this difference we can measure the distance
between the radio telescopes-and to the preciseness of two
millimeters
per 1,000 kilometers," explained Dr. Axel Nothnagel, reasearch group
leader for the Geodesy Institute of the University of Bonn.
The procedure is called VLBI, which stands for "Very Long Baseline
Interferometry." The technique can be used, for example, to
demonstrate
that Europe and North America are distancing from each other at a
rate
of about 18 millimeters annually. The distance of the gaging
stations
from each other allows the the size of the Earth or the exact
location
of the center of the Earth to be determined. "We have analyzed the
measurements and calculations from 34 partners in 17 countries,"
explained Nothnagel. "A combination of GPS and satellite laser
measurements will enable the availability of the coordinates from
almost
400 points on the surface of the Earth with unparalleled exactness."
The results are the basis for a new coordinate system for the
planet.
With this system it would be possible, for example, to determine the
track of so-called Altimeter-Satellites within a few millimeters
precision. Altimeter-Satellites measure their altitude over the
Earth's
surface and can, for example, register a rise in sea level.
Deviations
from the flight path, however, falsify the result. If the satellite
flies higher than expected, the distance to the surface of the Earth
differentiates from what is recorded-the sea level appears lower
than it
really is.
The EE'ers will have to become the ES'ers, the Earth is Shrinking.
It
will continue to do so until it . . . .
The measurement instruments are just far more reliable and accurate
than
they used to be. I still remember dragging a chain through the
field,
pulling it taught, with a tension gauge attached, and taking a
reading.
Don wont like this, it must be expanding, he just knows it . . . . .
. .
.
Of course, there is a shrinking earth theory as well. And like EE, it
has
been long refuted.
Refute means to prove wrong. Please provide this proof, otherwise you
are what you have always been a liar.
Been there, done that, was ignored.
Just killfile him. You can't argue with a brick wall.
Especially when it ask to back up your position. Just easier to
pretend it is imperious to facts than admit you cannot show them.
JT
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