Dichotomy

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4469. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Solar System Models And Concepts

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The phase of a body in the solar system when exactly half of its sunlit side is visible. The term is used in particular for the half-phases of the inferior planets, Mercury and Venus; in correct usage it is not applied to the Moon, for which the terms first quarter and last quarter are preferred. Other bodies in the solar system can be imaged at dichotomy only by spacecraft....

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