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The Organization of Space: Frames, Systems and Standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Heinrich Eichhorn
Heinrich Eichhorn*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, 61, ave. de l’Observatoire F-75014 ParisFrance1

Abstract

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The term “frame of reference” or “reference frame” has long been established in physics. The recent emergence of the use of this very term in astronomy to denote “a catalogue of the adopted coordinates of reference points that serves to define, or realize, a particular coordinate frame” is misleading because “a catalogue of adopted coordinates” must necessarily consists of estimates which cannot uniquely define a coordinate system.

Type
Part 1. Oral Papers
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 127: Reference Systems , 1991 , pp. 97 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © United States Naval Observatory 1991

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