[LEAPSECS] 1.26 microseconds
Tim Shepard
shep at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jun 13 17:26:45 EDT 2011
> PS: I read an interesting note recently about how the fact that
> years have varying lengths have become an issue for determining the
> "official" half-life of long lived radioactive isotopes: Many
> geological methods just counted years, but hadn't considered how
> long those years were.
Oh that is easy. A year is however long it takes a tree ring to grow.
-Tim Shepard
shep at alum.mit.edu
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