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Lunatic (1,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lunatic is a term referring to a person who is seen as mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, or crazy—conditions once attributed to "lunacy". The word derives

On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus) (2,899 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

generally been accepted. It leaves open, however, the question of where the lunar distance 671⁄3 came from. Following Pappus and Ptolemy, Swerdlow suggested that

Intuitive Machines (1,411 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lunar surface access, lunar orbit delivery, and communication from lunar distance. Intuitive Machines holds three NASA contracts under the space agency's

2009 BD (494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2011 within 0.00231 AU (346,000 km) of the Earth, which is less than 1 lunar distance. For comparison, the distance to the Moon is about 0.0026 AU (384,400 km)

Tide (13,054 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent,

Soyuz 7K-OK (753 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

same vehicle, it lacked the larger antenna needed to communicate at lunar distance. The early Soyuz models also sported an external toroidal fuel tank

Mariner's astrolabe (1,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two objects, which was necessary for longitude calculations by the lunar distance method (though that technique was not used when the instrument was developed)

Janet Taylor (1,833 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

true time," which discussed calculations that were able to "reduce the lunar distance" using a formula she derived herself. In 1834, she received a patent

Henry Wilberforce Clarke (1,633 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Author of "Notes on Elephants"; of "The Sextant"; of "Longitude by Lunar Distance"; and of "The Transverse Strength of a Railway-Rail" The book was dedicated

132524 APL (985 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(63,000 mi) on 13 June 2006. At its closest, it was about 1⁄4 of a lunar distance away from the asteroid. The flyby was incidental, and not all the instruments

Johannes Werner (651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in his Cosmographicus liber (Landshut 1524) and became known as the lunar distance method. Many consider Werner as a pioneer of modern meteorology and

Octant (instrument) (3,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Admiral John Campbell, who conducted shipboard experiments with the lunar distance method, suggested a larger instrument and the sextant was developed

Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara (274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Copernicus later used this observation to disprove Ptolemy's model of lunar distance. Copernicus had started out as Novara's student and then became his

Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician) (844 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of the Moon relative to the stars. His method was a variation of the lunar distance method first put forward by Johann Werner in 1514. Morin added some

William Lax (4,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Harrison were generally available from the 1820s onwards, rendering the lunar distance method, which Lax had used to create the tables, immaterial. Meanwhile

Irene Fischer (3,094 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

astrogeodetic world datum, The dynamical parallax, The lunar distance from occultations, The lunar distance from radar measurements. Fischer, Irene. 1962. "The

Carsten Niebuhr (2,320 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the premier astronomers of the 18th century, and the author of the Lunar Distance Method for determining longitude. Niebuhr's observations during the

History of navigation (7,954 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

derived from the octant in order to provide for the lunar distance method. With the lunar distance method, mariners could determine their longitude accurately

Commercial revolution (5,761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

longitude. This spurred the development of the marine chronometer, the lunar distance method and the invention of the octant after 1730. By the late 18th

Henry Toynbee (555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Royal Astronomical Society on the subject of rating chronometers by lunar distance. His wife often sailed with him, and added her illustrations to his

Guarino Guarini (2,716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Earth and concludes that Galileo's observation of the change in lunar distance is due to a change in velocity; that when the Moon appears closer to

Hipparchus (10,031 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for the sizes of the Sun and Earth as 1050:1; this leads to a mean lunar distance of 61 radii. Apparently Hipparchus later refined his computations, and

List of Solar System objects by size (10,637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

C.; Santos-Sanz, P. (February 2017). "Large Halloween asteroid at lunar distance" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 598: A63. arXiv:1610.08267. Bibcode:2017A&A

MISTRAM (2,819 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and delta-phi the measured phase shift in radians. Suppose T=2 sec (~lunar distance) then delta-phi=8000 radians, i.e. (8000*180)/Pi. Assume also that the

Selection of Discovery Mission 13 and 14 (5,428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

radio communication) in space, by sending data with lasers beyond one lunar distance (distance from Earth to the Moon). The system is called Deep Space Optical

Jeroen Eisinga (1,704 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Jeroen Eisinga and Anno Dijkstra, Kunsteyssen, Alkmaar, NL 2009 - Lunar Distance, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL 2009 - Flyersheepflagself: Part 2, Seventeen

Mason & Dixon (8,437 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assignment—assisting Maskelyne in his attempts to establish observations of the lunar distance as the preferred means of obtaining longitude at sea. He is unnerved

John Arnold (watchmaker) (4,605 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

William Wales for use in assessing the practicability of Maskelyne's Lunar distance method for finding the ship's longitude during the voyage of the Transit

Angular mechanics (944 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(2022-01-21). "How fast is Earth moving?". Space.com. Retrieved 2023-12-10. "Lunar distance", Wikipedia, 2023-12-05, retrieved 2023-12-10 "He Did Not Invent the