Earth is smaller than we think!


	Earth is smaller than we think!

invictus

7-6-2007 6:02 PM

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German scientists from Bonn University have discovered that our planet is smaller than originally thought. The difference is only 5 milimeters but they said the it was "crucial" when it comes to studying climate change.

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Researchers at Bonn University have discovered that the blue planet is really smaller than originally thought. The difference might be minute, but it has serious ramifications for climate change research, they say.</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2671939,00.html"><DIV>Five millimeters (0.2 inches) is less than half the width of an average finger and seems negligible when compared to the earth's diameter of 12,756.274 kilometers (7,926.3812 miles). But German researchers, who participated in an international project, have now found that the globe's exactly five millimeters "thinner" than originally expected.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2671939,00.html"><DIV>They said the difference is crucial when it comes to studying climate change.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2671939,00.html"><DIV>"It is essential for the positioning of the satellites that can measure rises in sea level," Axel Nothnagel, who led the team of researchers in Bonn, told AFP news service. "If the ground stations tracking the satellites are not accurate to the millimeter, then the satellites cannot be accurate, either."</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/800C0588-CFAE-4442-AB8A-AD0EB5711A06/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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