Travelling gnome answers weighty question
Physicists looking at anomalies in Earth's gravity have turned to a garden gnome that has been shipped around the globe to have itself weighed at locations as remote as the South Pole.
The experiment is a twist on the 'travelling gnome' prank, in which a garden ornament is mysteriously stolen, photographed at various locations - with the pictures posted on the Internet - and then returned home...So far he has weighed most - 309.82 grams - at the Amundsen-Scott Research Station in Antarctica, where the inertial pull produced by Earth's rotation is strong.
His weight in Sydney came in at 307.8 grams.
(photo Source: The Gnome Experiment)
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