please empty your brain below
Never did feel comfortable with a science like astronomy refering to points of light in the sky as imagined shapes. Incidentally, doesn't the earth also wobble slightly as the moon orbits it like a couple of binary stars.

fremsley | 29.02.04 - 12:05 a.m. | #

Yup fremsley, that's the Chandler Wobble.
It's a 14-month wobble that causes the North Pole to be 6 metres away from where we might otherwise expect. Nothing to do with uncertainties on Friends...

More here and here.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.02.04 - 7:47 a.m. | #

Fairly certain Polaris is in Ursa Minor, not Major.

Slimy | 29.02.04 - 8:36 a.m. | #

Oops, you're right. Duly changed.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.02.04 - 8:50 a.m. | #











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