[LEAPSECS] Never mind DUT1, what happened to dX ?

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Tue Mar 8 11:33:15 EST 2022


On Tue 2022-03-08T15:30:37+0000 Tony Finch hath writ:
> (note that the coefficient is seconds _shorter_ than 24*60*60µss,
> so +0.00021 means the long-term average LoD is 24h-210µs)

Ah, that points out what may be a cool correlation.

Looking back at dX and dY over their relatively short history it may
be the case that the celestial pole position wobble around the
predictable position is smaller when the rotation is accelerating.

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