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Summary Of: Longitude
Lines of longitude appear curved in this projection... Longitude on bodies other than Earth... but longitude presented no such manifest means of study... Longitude is given as an... A longitude is thus specified in... so longitude may also be expressed in this manner as a signed fraction of... A specific longitude may then be combined with a specific... Longitude at a point may be determined by calculating the time difference between that at its... less than the length of an arcdegree of longitude at the equator... Ecliptic latitude and longitude are defined for the planets... Ecliptic longitude relative to a moving equinox is used whenever the positions of the Sun... Longitude may be denominated from 0 to... Longitude on bodies other than Earth... Longitude on bodies other than Earth... and various definitions of longitude depending on the body... The longitude systems of most of those bodies with observable rigid surfaces have been defined by references... observer later in time has a higher planetographic longitude than a point that did so earlier in time... bodies have a natural reference longitude passing through the point nearest to their parent body... Longitude east of Greenwich... for longitude west of Greenwich... Encyclodia Page On: Longitude
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