Meridian

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4516.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4516. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Coordinates, Time, And Motion, Positional Concepts

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A great circle on the Earth's surface, running perpendicular to the equator and passing through the north and south poles. To an observer located at a particular position on the Earth, the meridian represents his north-south line. The Greenwich meridian (i.e. the meridian passing through the Old Greenwich Observatory) is taken as the zero of longitude measurement; thus the longitude of a point on...

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