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- planetographic longitude, west longitudes (i.e., longitudes measured positively to the west) are used when the rotation is prograde, and east longitudes (i.e....
- three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection...
- Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (reprinted as Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism in 2003) is...
- longitudes, that added to the material provided by Ptolemy, and in some cases improved on it. In most cases, the methods used to determine longitudes...
- The longitude of the ascending node (☊ or Ω) is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. It is the angle from a specified...
- ship's longitude at sea. The rewards, established through an Act of Parliament (the Longitude Act) in 1714, were administered by the Board of Longitude. This...
- celestial mechanics, the longitude of the periapsis, also called longitude of the pericenter, of an orbiting body is the longitude (measured from the point...
- The Longitude Act 1714 was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom p****ed in July 1714 at the end of the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board...
- The Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, or more po****rly Board of Longitude, was a British government body formed in 1714 to administer...
- meridian at 0° longitude and the antimeridian, at 180° longitude, are the conventionally accepted boundaries, since they divide eastern longitudes from western...
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