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To: moose07

What is an “equatorial axis”?


2 posted on 02/10/2015 1:05:36 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

The Equatorial Axis is the intersection of a sphere’s surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere’s axis of rotation and midway between the poles.


4 posted on 02/10/2015 1:19:22 AM PST by moose07 (The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
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To: Born to Conserve

What is an “equatorial axis”?

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I think it’s an arbitrarily chosen line that passes through the center of the Earth and the equator at two points.


31 posted on 02/10/2015 10:14:15 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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