I got an email today and thought I would share it with my fellow Chums. It's a new FREE program that gets people involved in science research projects. It's brand new so there's no telling just what that will entail, but one of the first projects involves measuring the weathering of gravestones. Click on this to go to the thread in the Geochums forums to read the letter and find the link to their website.
In recent years, the Air Force has struggled to successfully build GPS satellites within cost and schedule goals; it encountered significant technical problems that still threaten its delivery schedule.
We're doing the event again this year because it turned out so great last year. The event is the weekend of July 24-26, 2009 in Conneaut, OH. Lots of info on the cache page.
An historical society in Bradenton, Florida combined other activities with geocaching to raise money to restore the last remaining cabin in a former fish camp. They even created a special commemorative coin for the event.
Immediately before midnight a leap second -- the first for three years -- will be added to atomic clocks around the world by official timekeepers. This is needed to keep the extremely accurate Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) -- correct. UTC has been the world's official clock and is used for broadcasting time signals across the world. The accuracy of UTC is essential for the smooth running of GPS and the Internet. Click the link for more info!
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