Monday, July 09, 2007

Planet Earth smaller than we thought


New Scientist reports: [edited]

The world is smaller than we thought – by five millimetres. That is the conclusion of an international project to measure the diameter of the Earth. The last such measurement was made in 2000.

The synthesis of all the data took two years. It was organised by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.
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