Terminator

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4472.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4472. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Solar System Models And Concepts

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The line marking the boundary between the day and night sides of a solar system object, as seen from the Earth or from a spacecraft. As the relative positions of the Earth, the Sun and the object shift, the proportion of the object's sunlit side visible from the Earth changes and the terminator moves across the object's disk. The terminator thus determines the object's phase. From the Earth, the ...

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