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To: Elsie; RadioAstronomer
And, these rotations are so small as to not necessary to be considered when RadioAstronomer makes orbital calculations.

I s'pose it depends on the accuracy required. I don't really know what he does, you'd have to ask him.

If you want to be 100% accurate, you'd have to include them. But I would imagine that the effect is so small that it might not be relevant to most real calculations you'd need to do.

267 posted on 03/15/2007 12:26:42 PM PDT by Dominic Harr (Conservative: The "ant", to a liberal's "grasshopper".)
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To: Dominic Harr; Elsie

I do take into account galactic rotation and other motions, just by the fact the stars are "drifting" referenced to the sun/earth/moon.


271 posted on 03/15/2007 12:45:06 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
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