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> The gradual diversion of pulsar time from ESTEC’s UTC time can therefore be tracked – anticipated at a rate of around 200 trillionths of a second daily.

If you were curious how much this clock drifts. I think we might have more accurate atomic clocks, though, so this still isn’t practical for actual precise timekeeping at that level.



It would be useful for measuring the angular velocity decay rate though.


Of pulsars? For sure. But the clock you’d use for that would be better than this one, obviously.




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