Show science notes changes in position t on of pole although tile the inhabitants of the earth are bot of perceptibly affected by tile the wandering motion of the north pole yet it Is a phenomenon of increasing merest interest to scientists particularly part leu astronomers this motion which Is suggestive of it the wa libling of a tup top Is extremely slight when aben the vast size of 0 theearta the earth Is taken in account for about au years the north pole has never it Is claimed been more than 35 feet away from the place pl ice it fill hould occupy if tile the earths axis of revolution never varied in direction tile amount of variation ling lias been learned le arneil by the international geodetic association through observations vu and four observing stations all close to the thirty ninth degree of north latitude and all within of at the same parol parallel tel these are at japan Caro loforte sardinia Calt gaithersburg herrburg md nod and ukiah calif precisely similar observations alth ith exactly the same kind of zenith telescopes are made at each station on carefully selected stars saurs in this way any change in the direction of the pole reveals itself by a shift of the stars |