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- Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Venus at Night in Infrared from Akatsuki (2018 Jan 30)
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Re: APOD: Venus at Night in Infrared from Akatsuki (2018 Jan 30)
I read an article about the slowing of the earth's rotation around 40 to 60 years ago, probably in the Scientific American magazine, to the effect that one third of the slowing was caused by frictional losses due to surface winds. I remember thinking at that time, "I wonder if Venus' loss of an...