A planetary coordinate system (also referred to as planetographic, planetodetic, or planetocentric) is a generalization of the geographic, geodetic, and...
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The equatorial coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system widely used to specify the positions of celestial objects. It may be implemented in spherical...
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Planetary coordinate system Selenoid IAU/IAG Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2003 A Standardized Lunar Coordinate System...
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In mathematics, a spherical coordinate system is a coordinate system for three-dimensional space where the position of a given point in space is specified...
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A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude...
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bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation. It studies...
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Earth-fixed coordinate system (acronym ECEF), also known as the geocentric coordinate system, is a cartesian spatial reference system that represents...
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In astronomy, the ecliptic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system commonly used for representing the apparent positions, orbits, and pole orientations...
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In astronomy, coordinate systems are used for specifying positions of celestial objects (satellites, planets, stars, galaxies, etc.) relative to a given...
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Geodetic coordinates (redirect from Geodetic coordinate system)
geodetic coordinates Geodetic datum Geodesics on an ellipsoid Planetary coordinate system National Geodetic Survey (U.S.).; National Geodetic Survey (U...
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Fränz, M.; Harper, D. (February 2002). "Heliospheric coordinate systems" (PDF). Planetary and Space Science. 50 (2): 217–233. Bibcode:2002P&SS...50...
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Geodetic datum (redirect from Geodetic Coordinate System)
plane coordinates Ordnance Datum Milestone Planetary coordinate system Reference frame World Geodetic System The plural is not "data" in this case About...
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In geometry, the elliptic coordinate system is a two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system in which the coordinate lines are confocal ellipses and...
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map. Areography (geography of Mars) Cartography of the Moon Planetary coordinate system "ICA Multilingual Glossary". Archived from the original on March...
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Geoid Great ellipse Meridian arc Normal gravity Planetary coordinate system History of geodesy Planetary ellipsoid Alexander, J. C. (1985). "The Numerics...
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Similar definitions exist for satellites around other planets (see planetary coordinate systems). For heliocentric orbits, the ecliptic as the reference plane...
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Poles of astronomical bodies (category Astronomical coordinate systems)
of the other moons disturbs it regularly. Galactic coordinate system Planetary coordinate system Archinal, B. A.; A’Hearn, M. F.; Bowell, E.; Conrad...
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Navigation Orders of magnitude Planetary coordinate system#Longitude Right ascension on celestial sphere World Geodetic System "Definition of LONGITUDE"....
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Ephemeris (redirect from Planetary table)
calculated from an ephemeris is often given in the spherical polar coordinate system of right ascension and declination, together with the distance from...
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This is a list of the Solar System's recent planetary conjunctions (in other words, when two planets look close together) for the period 2005–2020. In...
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Geodesy (section Coordinate systems in space)
varying 3D. It is called planetary geodesy when studying other astronomical bodies, such as planets or circumplanetary systems. Geodesy is an earth science...
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spacetime coordinate system relative to an implied observer. In many (but not all) coordinate systems, an event is specified by one time coordinate and three...
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and the state of the natural systems on which it depends". In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health launched the concept...
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ellipsoid Jacobi ellipsoid Latitude Ellipsoidal coordinates Planetary coordinate system Snyder, J. P. (1986). "Conformal Mapping of the Triaxial Ellipsoid"...
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In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler in 1609 (except the third law, and was fully published in 1619), describe...
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Celestial sphere (category Astronomical coordinate systems)
building a system that way are as much historic as technical. Astronomy portal Horizontal coordinate system Equatorial coordinate system Hour angle Pole...
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Geocentric model (redirect from Ptolemaic system)
the Solar System with the largest gravitational field as the center of the coordinate system in order to predict the motions of planetary bodies, though...
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interplanetary spacecraft in the Solar System. TDB is now (since 2006) defined as a linear scaling of Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB). A feature that distinguishes...
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Asteroid impact avoidance (redirect from Planetary defense)
Group, NASA Office of Space Science, Solar System Exploration Office France, Martin (7 August 2000). "Planetary Defense: Eliminating the Giggle Factor" (PDF)...
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N-body problem (redirect from Many particle systems)
integration. Local coordinate systems are used to deal with widely differing scales in some problems, for example an Earth–Moon coordinate system in the context...
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