EARTH’S “WOBBLE.”
THE CAUSE DISCOVERED.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY AMERICAN ASTRONOMER. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. Captain Thomas See, the navy mathematician and Government astronomer at Mare Island, announces that he has discovered the cause of the variation of latitude, 'or the periodic “wobble” of the earth’s axis. He said he had demonstrated mathematically that the phenomenon of the polar motion, or shift of th e earth’s axis in the globe, which has interested .scientists for years, is due to tides in the Pacific Ocean. The discovery was the result of forty years of study. The tides and findings under his hypothesis agree exact\y with the astronomical observations in many countries over a period of 35 years. Captain See says the discovery is one of the most notable triumphs in the physics of the earth.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1926, Page 5
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