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Re: Alternate Planets for Celestial Navigation
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2008 Feb 21, 13:19 +0000
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2008 Feb 21, 13:19 +0000
At 11:23 21/02/2008, you wrote: > > >The Earth is nearly a sphere, but not quite. Celestial navigation, as >commonly practiced, has no issues with the fact that the Earth isn't quite >round. The flattening is only one part in about 300. > >But if the Earth were a cube, instead of a sphere?? Then celestial >navigation wouldn't work at all --on every face of this imaginary >cube-shaped planet, the altitudes of key stars would be constant. One could >not determine position on a "cubic planet" by measuring the stars. Celestial navigation may not work using a marine sextant, but I don't see why it would not work using a bubble sextant or theodolite.....? Geoffrey Kolbe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---