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Old January 10th 15, 11:28 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
oriel36[_2_]
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Default Revisiting the Pope/Galileo affair.

The good news is that the 'leap second' correction is valid within the 365/366 timekeeping framework as a subset of the anchor observation of 1461 days in 4 years and its dynamical equivalent of 1461 rotations within 4 orbital circuits.

The entire community may wish to fool itself into believing that timekeeping is defined by daily rotation but the system is founded on the leap day rotation through a series of observations involving a line-of-sight observation of Sirius and its first seasonal appearance to define the Earth's position in space.

How wonderful to keep the historical company of people of influence such as the Pope and Galileo rather than the tepid academics of today who have diluted the issues into a meaningless perspective by their own volition. Should genuine researchers choose to act in a truly meaningful way then nobody will be as pleased as I am.