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Re: Polar Possessions of the SU. was: Lunars with SNO-T
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 25, 02:20 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 25, 02:20 -0500
Frank, I did not understand this message. It looks like you began a sentence but did not finish it. (I've never heard of such sextant SNO-U/Y, and even cannot figure out what Russian letters correspond to your transliteration.) The word "snezhnyi" means "made of snow" or related to snow in some other way. They would not say this about a sextant. They would rather say "Poliarnyi" which means "Polar". Alex. On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Frank Reed wrote: > "But maybe not land-based (which can be done with a more > precise instrument, theodolite), but ICE-BASED." > > The lesser known SNO-U/Y sextant, sometimes transliterated in the West as > SNO-WY sextant, may have been used here... > (ouch) > > Snezhny? > > Frank R > [ ] Mystic, Connecticut > [X] Chicago, Illinois >
