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Mean longitude
Mean longitude In astrodynamics or celestial dynamics mean longitude is the longitude at which an orbiting body could ...
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Longitude
Longitude Map of Earth showing lines of longitude, which appear curved and vertical in this ... but are actually halves of great circles Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ ... north-south line called the Prime Meridian. Longitude is given as an angular measurement ranging ... there is no natural starting position for longitude. Therefore, a reference meridian had to ...
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Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time For alternate meanings of "GMT", see GMT (disambiguation). Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is mean solar time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory ... by convention is at 0 degrees geographic longitude. Noon Greenwich Mean Time is not necessarily the moment ...
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Talk:Greenwich Mean Time/Time Cube
Talk:Greenwich Mean Time/Time Cube < Talk:Greenwich Mean Time Time Cube For the reasons below ... Clown. No one looking up latitude and longitude needs a link to Flat Earth, and ... It has nothing to do with Greenwich Mean Time. The "4/16 rotation principle" is ... It has nothing to do with Greenwich Mean Time" -- unsubstantiated assertion, ignoring my arguments ...
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Talk:Longitude prize
Talk:Longitude prize He used very accurate clocks and ... the height of the sun. However, the Longitude Board set up to administer the prize refused to beleive that longitude could be determined without astronomical measures. How ... the moon and various stars, the unsuccessful longitude method, was normally only done in observatories ... prior to finding it useful in determining longitude? Nonetheless, the crux of the matter ...
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Greenwich Mean Time (Mac wiki)
Greenwich Mean Time Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory ... by convention is at 0 degrees geographic longitude. Theoretically, noon Greenwich Mean Time is the moment when the ...
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Longitude of the periapsis
Longitude of the periapsis In astrodynamics, the longitude of the periapsis (symbolized \bar{\omega ... math>) of an orbiting body is the longitude (measured from the point of the vernal ... the body's inclination were zero. The longitude of periapsis is a compound angle, with ... orbit. Likewise, any angle derived from the longitude of periapsis (e.g. mean longitude ...
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Talk:Prime Meridian
... Prime Meridian version: "The meridian (line of longitude) passing through Royal Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, England is the prime meridian (longitude = 0 degrees). The meridian was agreed upon ... be the 'initial meridian'. 3) That all longitude would be calculated both east and west ... 5) The universal day would be a Mean Solar Day, beginning at the mean midnight at Greenwich and counted on ...
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Talk:Hurricane Vince (2005)
... Here is a list: Hurricane #3 (1900) Longitude 18.5. A tropical Storm at the time. Hurricane Able (1952) Longitude 19.0. A tropical deppresion at the time. Tropical Storm Becky (1962) Longitude 18.8. A tropical deppression at the time. Hurricane Dora (1964) Longitude 18.0. A tropical deppression at the ... time. Tropical Storm Ginger (1967) Ad. 1 Longitude 18.3. It was a tropical ...
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Time zone
... local solar time, originally apparent and then mean solar time. Their difference is the equation of time. Mean solar time is the average over the ... amount corresponding to their difference in geographical longitude, which was generally not a convenient number ... time zones", each separated by 15° of longitude and offset by one hour from its ... scheme, local time is always close to mean solar time, while comparing the time ...
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