X-Nico

unusual facts about Axis of rotation



Hicetas

Like his fellow Pythagorean Ecphantus and the Academic Heraclides Ponticus, he believed that the daily movement of permanent stars was caused by the rotation of the Earth around its axis.

Longitude

Planetary co-ordinate systems are defined relative to their mean axis of rotation and various definitions of longitude depending on the body.


see also

London moment

A magnetometer determines the orientation of the generated field, which is interpolated to determine the axis of rotation.

Magnetic South

South Pole, one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface