Chandler wobble
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title:
Chandler wobble
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The Chandler wobble or Chandler variation of latitude is a small deviation in the Earth's axis of rotation relative to the solid earth, which was discovered by and named after American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891. It amounts to change of about 9 metres (30 ft) in the point at which the axis intersects the Earth's surface and has a period of 433 days. This wobble, which is an astronomical nutation, combines with another wobble with a period of six years, so that the total polar motion
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Small deviation in the Earth's axis of rotation relative to the solid earth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_wobble
date created:
2003-05-15T09:40:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T02:20:49Z
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