On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Significant expenditures and very interesting research is going on, > in order to similarly liberate the kilogram from the unreliable > lump of metal currently encapsulating it.
And VERY SHINY research too: http://www.ptb.de/en/aktuelles/archiv/presseinfos/pi2011/pitext/pi110127.html http://www.acpo.csiro.au/avogadro.htm http://www.csiro.au/science/ps35k.html Though they'll need more than one lab in Australia to be able to make very round things before it can be a properly reproducible standard. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Malin: Southwest 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 later. Very rough or high. Occasional rain. Moderate or good. Occasionally poor. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
