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Geocentric Co-ordinate Time

Geocentric Co-ordinate Time is the alternative spelling of Geocentric Coordinate Time.

Meaning of Geocentric Coordinate Time

Proper noun

Geocentric Coordinate Time

  1. A coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth, equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth.
    • In some recent papers (for example: Ashby and Bertotti 1983, 1984) the satellite motion is treated in the local inertial geocentric reference frame with geocentric coordinate time being an independent argument.1983, Heinrich Karl Eichhorn, Robert Jay Leacock, editors, Astrometric Techniques: Proceedings of the 109th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A....

Questions about Geocentric Co-ordinate Time

What is Geocentric Co-ordinate Time the alternative spelling of?
Geocentric Co-ordinate Time is the alternative spelling of Geocentric Coordinate Time.

Words near Geocentric Co-ordinate Time in the dictionary

  1. geocaulosphere
  2. geocaulospheres
  3. geocell
  4. geocells
  5. geocentric
  6. Geocentric Co-ordinate Time
  7. Geocentric Coordinate Time
  8. geocentrical
  9. geocentrically
  10. geocentricism
  11. geocentricity

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