Show Scientists Wrong Wrong- on In in Blaming Moon oon for Making Them Miss Predictions By DR ERNEST W W. BROWN BRO Yale University The earth is a wobbly unreliable old celestial body It is prone to skid and change its shape For ages it has been deceiving ng man Scientists have blamed the moon for straying a little from her narrow path making them miss in prediction of an eclipse by a second or two It is all because the earths earth's rotation is variable This skidding ov or wobble is not due to outside forces but to the earth itself When the earth r changes its shape it changes its rate Ji of spinning It swells and shrinks rhythmically in periods of three or four years There is no cause for immediate alarm however For ages it has been up to the same trick but has always managed fairly well to make a completa comple complete com com- pleta turn about every twenty-four twenty hours |