Re: What Time Is It on the Moon?

The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/moon-time-nasa-mission-650b6c36?mo

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Indeed, a good experiment, but hardly news.
There is already an atomic clock (two even)
on the GAIA sat, well beyond the moon at L2,
which behaves as expected.

The most pressing problem with it:
what are they going to call the lunar equivalent of the geoid?
The 'loonoid', perhaps?

Jan