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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Just a reminder... a new leapsecond will take effect at midnight on December 31, 2008.<BR>
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For SPICE users, if you haven’t already downloaded and installed the new Leapsecond Kernel (LSK), named naif0009,<BR>
now would be a good time to do so. You can find this new kernel (one for Unix/Linux/Mac, another for Windows platforms)<BR>
on the NAIF server: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="ftp://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/lsk/">ftp://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/lsk/</a><BR>
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(Installing it ahead of time—ahead of Dec 31—is not a problem.)<BR>
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NAIF suggests you search for and remove (delete) any instances of older LSK files, just to be safe.<BR>
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We at NAIF look forward to continuing our work in support of the international space science community in 2009,<BR>
no matter if the Earth’s rotation rate is changing!<BR>
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