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- Title
Tracking planets around the Sun.
- Authors
Riddle, Bob
- Abstract
The article offers a look on tracking the changing locations of planets. According to the author, the changing locations of the planets can be tracked in several ways through the use of various celestial coordinate systems. This system reveals the motion relative of the planet to the ecliptic, the apparent path the Sun follows during the year. Moreover, it is noted that the alternate system using heliocentric longitude has placed the viewer in an above the solar-system viewpoint, tracking the planets in their near-circular orbits around the Sun.
- Subjects
PLANETS; SUN; ORBITS (Astronomy); SOLAR system; CELESTIAL reference systems; GEODETIC astronomy; SPHERICAL astronomy; HELIOCENTRIC astrology; ECLIPTIC
- Publication
Science Scope, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 7, p84
- ISSN
0887-2376
- Publication type
Article