A planetary coordinate system (also referred to as planetographic, planetodetic, or planetocentric) is a generalization of the geographic, geodetic, and...
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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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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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In mathematics, a spherical coordinate system specifies a given point in three-dimensional space by using a distance and two angles as its three coordinates...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Navigation Orders of magnitude Planetary coordinate system#Longitude Right ascension on celestial sphere World Geodetic System "Definition of LONGITUDE"....
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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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ellipsoid Jacobi ellipsoid Latitude Ellipsoidal coordinates Planetary coordinate system Snyder, J. P. (1986). "Conformal Mapping of the Triaxial Ellipsoid"...
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Asteroid impact avoidance (redirect from Planetary defense system)
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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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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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. Geodynamical phenomena...
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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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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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the Claudia coordinate system has since been superseded by the Claudia Douple-Prime system (also called the Planetary Data coordinate system), where Claudia...
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Kepler-47 (category Multi-star planetary systems)
binary, the discovery that multi-planet systems can form in such a system has impacted previous theories of planetary formation. A group of astronomers led...
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Moon (redirect from Terran System)
Dickey, Jean O. (1996). "Lunar moments, tides, orientation, and coordinate frames". Planetary and Space Science. 44 (10): 1077–1080. Bibcode:1996P&SS...44...
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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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In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler in 1609 (except the third law, which was fully published in 1619), describe...
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