One second delay

"The start of next year will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone's control. Time will stand still for one second on New Year's Eve, as we ring in the New Year on that Wednesday night. As a result, you'll have an extra second to celebrate because a "Leap Second" will be added to 2008 to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks."

By international agreement, the world's timekeepers, in order to keep their official atomic clocks in step with the world's irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009.

Anyone Home?

This artist's illustration shows a newly discovered planet otuside our solar system that's so similar to Earth it might sustain life, astronomers say. The planet's temperature is between 32 and 104 degrees fahrenheit. While it is 14 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun, the star, Gliese 581, is smaller and dimm

The "dwarf planet" formerly known as Xena

I seems like changing a name is very in right now. A Friend of mine Pap now is Aiden . Now Planet once called Xena now is "Eris"

Since its discovery last year, Eris, which had been known as 2003 UB313, ignited a debate about what constitutes a planet. .Some argued it should be welcomed as the 10th planet since it was larger than Pluto, but others felt Pluto was not a full-fledged planet

Last month astronomers shrink the solar system to eight planets, downgrading Pluto to a "dwarf planet," a category that also includes Eris and the asteroid Ceres.

In mythology, Eris caused a quarrel among goddesses that sparked the Trojan War. In real life, Eris forced scientists to define a planet that eventually led to Pluto getting the boot. Soon after Pluto's dismissal from the planet club, hundreds of scientists circulated a petition protesting the decision.

Eris' moon also received a formal name: Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness.