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Interesting question
From: Vic Fraenckel
Date: 2003 Aug 18, 21:27 -0400
From: Vic Fraenckel
Date: 2003 Aug 18, 21:27 -0400
I saw this posted on sci.geo.satellit-nav today. Any comments? >I was reading about the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, England. It is >marked by Airy's Transit Circle at the Royal Observatory. In this age of > centimeter accuracy, does continental drift affect the position of the >prime meridian? It is moving at 2 to 5 cm / year, relative to the mantle. Vic ________________________________________________________ Victor Fraenckel - The Windman vfraenc1@nycap.rr.com KC2GUI www.windsway.com Home of the WindReader Electronic Theodolite Read the WIND "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." - Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965) Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? -Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620) to the young King Gustavus Adolphus