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Hi Bill, you wrote:
"The old 'Everything you know is wrong' mantra."

I admit I was worried that this was going to be another 'it's all wrong' story but when I read the article at IFLscience, I felt that they did a rather good job without sensationalism. The folks at IFLscience are among the better players in the online, social media-driven science game. By the way, for those unfamiliar with the brand, their name "IFLscience" comes from "I freaking love science" (or something like that).

If you follow their link, you can read the original article. I'll attach a copy here for convenience. I haven't read it yet, but it looks like great stuff.

This is an exceptionally rare case where, of the five authors listed, I have met four of them. They all attended that conference on leap seconds near Philadelphia in late 2011 (where I was interviewed by Neil deGrasse Tyson). Two of these names should be familiar to many navigation and positional astronomy fans: George Kaplan and Ken Seidelmann. George Kaplan has published a number of articles on solutions of the basic problem of celestial navigation including the running fix. Ken Seidelmann is one of the principal creators of the system of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and he is also editor of the "Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac" (the name may be shorter by now!), which I am sure many NavList math-heads own. These are significant folks in the world of latitude and longitude.

Frank Reed
ReedNavigation.com
Conanicut Island USA

PS: Thanks to Norm for posting the original link!

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