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    Airy-0 is a crater inside the larger Airy Crater on Mars, whose location historically defined the Martian prime meridian. It is about 0.5 km (0.3 mile)...
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  • following features, phenomena, and theories are named: Airy (lunar crater) Airy (Martian crater) Airy-0, a smaller crater within the previous one on Mars,...
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    Sir George Biddell Airy KCB FRS (/ˈɛəri/; 27 July 1801 – 2 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor...
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    In optics, the Airy disk (or Airy disc) and Airy pattern are descriptions of the best-focused spot of light that a perfect lens with a circular aperture...
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    uncertainty in the exact geographical position of the prime meridian at Airy-0 crater.[citation needed] A convention used by spacecraft lander projects...
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    sciences, the Airy function (or Airy function of the first kind) Ai(x) is a special function named after the British astronomer George Biddell Airy (1801–1892)...
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    Mount Airy /ˈmaʊntəri/ is a city within Surry County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was...
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    underlying the Airy distribution can be resolved when measuring the Airy distribution. At the point where Δ ν c = Δ ν F S R ⇒ R 1 R 2 = e − 2 π ≈ 0.001867 ,...
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    Chandra Tripathi, Prof. Devi Datt Pant, Indramani Badoni and Kashi Singh Airy at Nanital. The party was formed under the leadership of some of the major...
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    usually referenced, which for Mars is the meridian passing through the crater Airy-0. It is possible for many different coordinate systems to be defined upon...
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    as Meridiani Planum. Currently the Martian prime meridian is the crater Airy-0. Beer lies in the southwest of Meridiani Planum, about 8° from the prime...
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    Mount Airy is a town in Carroll and Frederick counties in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of both the Washington Metropolitan Area and Baltimore...
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    crater, named Airy-0, located in Sinus Meridiani along the meridian line of Beer and Mädler, thus defining 0.0° longitude with a precision of 0.001°. This...
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    local gravity vector at the Airy transit circle (51°28′40.1″N 0°0′5.3″W / 51.477806°N 0.001472°W / 51.477806; -0.001472 (Airy Transit)) of the Greenwich...
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    had married Mann Page, of Mannsfield Plantation, an exact replica of Mount Airy. "He succeeded to the largest estate in Virginia" upon his return to the...
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    provided extensive imagery of Mars in 1972, a small crater (later called Airy-0), located in the Sinus Meridiani ("Middle Bay" or "Meridian Bay"), was chosen...
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  • Bi(x) Airy points. Airy stress functions Airy transform Airy wave theory. Airy zeta function Airy–Heiskanen model, see "Airy hypothesis". Airy, a crater...
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    Airy is a lunar impact crater located in the southern highlands. It is named in honour of British astronomer George Biddell Airy. It forms the southernmost...
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  • Airy points (after George Biddell Airy) are used for precision measurement (metrology) to support a length standard in such a way as to minimise bending...
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    Mars was established in 1971 and passes through the center of the crater Airy-0, although it is fixed by the longitude of the Viking 1 lander, which is...
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    county seat is Dobson, and its largest community is Mount Airy. Surry county comprises the Mount Airy, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included...
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    Mount Airy is one of the 52 neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio. The neighborhood is home to Mount Airy Forest, one of the oldest urban reforestation projects...
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    Mount Airy is a town in Habersham County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,284 at the 2010 census, up from 604 at the 2000 census. The Georgia...
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    Mount Airy is a neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Mount Airy is bounded on the northwest by the Cresheim Valley...
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  • The Airy processes are a family of stationary stochastic processes that appear as limit processes in the theory of random growth models and random matrix...
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    400 km west, 100 km north of True Origin Scale factor: 0.9996012717 EPSG Code: EPSG:27700 Ellipsoid: Airy 1830 Semi-major axis a: 6377563.396 m Semi-minor axis...
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    Masursky and defined the prime meridian of Mars as passing through the crater Airy-0. Davies Crater lies on the prime meridian, appropriate because Davies was...
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    historical astronomers, Merton E. Davies established the meridian of Mars at Airy-0 crater. For Mercury, the only other planet with a solid surface visible...
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    An Airy beam, is a propagation invariant wave whose main intensity lobe propagates along a curved parabolic trajectory while being resilient to perturbations...
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    Astrological sign (redirect from Airy sign)
    first point of Taurus, not part of Aries. The signs are occasionally numbered 0 through 11 in place of symbols in astronomical works. The twelve signs are...
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