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  • Ecliptic
    [[Image:Ecliptic1.png|left|thumb|400px||Fig. 1. The ecliptic is shown as a red circle. Winter and summer refer to the Northern hemispher ...The arrow on the Earth indicates the angle between the Earth axis and the ecliptic plane; it also gives the direction of the diurnal (daily) rotation of the E
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  • Ecliptic/Definition
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  • Ecliptic/Related Articles
    Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Ecliptic]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • Ecliptic
    [[Image:Ecliptic1.png|left|thumb|400px||Fig. 1. The ecliptic is shown as a red circle. Winter and summer refer to the Northern hemispher ...The arrow on the Earth indicates the angle between the Earth axis and the ecliptic plane; it also gives the direction of the diurnal (daily) rotation of the E
    2 KB (333 words) - 05:31, 24 March 2010
  • Conjunction (astronomy)
    ...another in [[space]]. Conjunctions between two bright objects close to the ecliptic, such as two bright planets, can be seen with the naked eye. When two objects always appear close to the [[ecliptic]]—such as two [[planet]]s, the [[Moon]] and a planet, or the [[Sun]] and
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  • Antares
    ...[Spica]], and [[Regulus]] it is one of the four brightest stars near the [[ecliptic]]. The similarly-colored [[Aldebaran]] (α [[Taurus|Tauri]]) lies almost d
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  • Great circle/Related Articles
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  • Ecliptic/Related Articles
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  • Chinese constellation/Related Articles
    {{r|Ecliptic}}
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  • Right-hand rule/Related Articles
    {{r|Ecliptic}}
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  • Latitude/Related Articles
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  • Milky Way/Related Articles
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  • Kuiper belt
    ...these trans-Neptunian bodies orbit the Sun within a thick band around the ecliptic plane of the solar system. For this reason it is largely believed that they Pluto has an eccentric orbit: it is inclined 17 degrees to the ecliptic plane and ranges from 29.7 AU from the Sun at perihelion (within the orbit
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  • Year
    ...een successive vernal equinoxes. The mean tropical year (averaged over all ecliptic points) is 365.242 189 67 days (365d 5h 48min 45s) long.
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  • Almagest
    ...simply converted Hipparchus's description of the location of each star to ecliptic coordinates and then shifted these values by a constant to account for prec
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  • Sun/Related Articles
    {{r|Ecliptic}}
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  • Universe/Related Articles
    {{r|Ecliptic}}
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  • Year/Student Level
    ...een successive vernal equinoxes. The mean tropical year (averaged over all ecliptic points) is 365.242 189 67 days (365d 5h 48min 45s) long.
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  • Equator
    ...rial plane makes an angle of 23° 26' with the ecliptic. See the article [[ecliptic]] for illustrations.
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  • Chinese constellation
    In addition, for the Chinese, the region of sky passed through by the [[ecliptic]] is not divided into 12 [[zodiac|zodiacal constellations]], but into '''Tw
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  • Uranus (planet)
    ...of the planet tilted just over 90 degrees with respect to the poles of the ecliptic (the plane of the planet's revolution about the Sun). Thus the rotational a
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  • Moon
    ...eriod of 18.61 years during Earth's orbit around the Sun. The plane of the ecliptic in turn is itself about 23 degrees from the plane of the Earth's equator.<r
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  • Copernican revolution (book)
    ...apparent motion of the Sun as seen from Earth; it introduces concepts as [[ecliptic]], winter/summer [[solstice]] and vernal/autumnal [[equinox]]. When the a ...ual orbit, whereas in reality it makes a constant angle with the invariant ecliptic. Therefore, Copernicus had to introduce an extra conical yearly motion to
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  • Milankovitch cycles
    ...Hipparchus discovered the equinoxes were not static, but move West on the ecliptic when compared to distant stars that relatively seem fixed at this distance.
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  • Wow! Signal
    ...ii]], and about [[Tau Sagittarii|3.5 degrees south]] of the [[plane of the ecliptic]]. [[Tau Sagittarii]] is the closest easily visible star.
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  • Saturn (planet)
    ...rn] is surrounded by a thin, flat, ring, nowhere touching, inclined to the ecliptic." <ref>http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/saturn/back.html</ref> ...akes approximately 29 and a half years to make a complete circuit of the [[ecliptic]] against the background constellations of the [[zodiac]]. Optical aid (a l
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  • Planet
    ...]] claim that the position of the planets within various sections of the [[ecliptic]] can be an indicator of events on Earth. By carefully measuring the orbits
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  • Solar System
    ...plane parallel to that of Earth's orbit. The planets are very close to the ecliptic while [[comet]]s and [[kuiper belt]] objects are usually at significantly g ...ts the Sun on its side; its [[axial tilt]] is over ninety degrees to the [[ecliptic]]. It has a much colder core than the other gas giants, and radiates very l
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  • History of astronomy
    ...is that this refers to a motion along the ecliptic or a description of the ecliptic with regard to twelve 30 degree signs which is connected with the zodiacal
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  • Telescope
    ...esearch]] (NCAR) </ref> Galileo's geometric military compass, and Kepler's ecliptic instrument. Galileo not only had to adapt the telescope to astronomy, he al
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  • Mars (planet)
    ...top) and from the ascending node (below). The segments of orbits below the ecliptic are plotted in darker colours. The [[perihelion|perihelia]] (q) and [[aphe
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  • Milky Way
    ...inclination of Earth's [[equator|equatorial plane]] and the plane of the [[ecliptic]] relative to the galactic plane. The fact that the Milky Way divides the n
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  • Astronomy
    [[axial tilt|obliquity]] of the [[ecliptic]] was estimated as early as 1,000 B.C by the Chinese. The Chaldeans discove
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