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Old 14-September-2008, 04:50 PM
rodin rodin is offline
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Correct me if I am wrong but this study measures the activity of the Moon on the Earth I think. If Earth mass remains (fairly) constant, but radius changes, then periodicity of Lunar months is unaffected.
LOL I just noticed the pdf link..

and find this
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The counts for the Reynella and Elatina rhythmites suggest 29-30 lunar days per synodic month and thus imply 30.5 + 0.5 solar days/synodic month.
referring to pictures on P 42

How they can count individual days from those strata beats me

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pdf link

http://www.agu.org/journals/rg/v038/...99RG900016.pdf