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  2. Earth's orbit - Wikipedia

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    The point towards which the Earth in its solar orbit is directed at any given instant is known as the "apex of the Earth's way". [4] [5] From a vantage point above the north pole of either the Sun or Earth, Earth would appear to revolve in a counterclockwise direction around the Sun. From the same vantage point, both the Earth and the Sun would ...

  3. Waypoint - Wikipedia

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    A walking route with a number of waypoints marked. A waypoint is a point or place on a route or line of travel, a stopping point, an intermediate point, or point at which course is changed, [1] [2] the first use of the term tracing to 1880. [2]

  4. Mile - Wikipedia

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    The radar mile is a unit of time (in the same way that the light year is a unit of distance), equal to the time required for a radar pulse to travel a distance of two miles (one mile each way). Thus, the radar statute mile is 10.8 μs and the radar nautical mile is 12.4 μs.

  5. Orbit of the Moon - Wikipedia

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    With a mean orbital velocity around the barycentre between the Earth and the Moon, of 1.022 km/s (0.635 miles/s, 2,286 miles/h), [6] the Moon covers a distance approximately its diameter, or about half a degree on the celestial sphere, each hour.

  6. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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    The Polynesian triangle. Between about 3000 and 1000 BC speakers of Austronesian languages spread through the islands of Southeast Asia – most likely starting out from Taiwan, [9] as tribes whose natives were thought to have previously arrived from mainland South China about 8000 years ago – into the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanesia, through the Philippines and Indonesia.

  7. Milestone - Wikipedia

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    The second label is a letter, standing for the first letter of the next town if one is traveling on that direction, then the distance in kilometers, from the town. In the example to the right, a milestone in Ortigas Avenue in Pasig says it is 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) from Rizal Park, and 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from Cainta .

  8. Travel to the Earth's center - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Humans have drilled over 12 kilometers (about 8 miles) in the Sakhalin-I project. [3] In terms of depth below the surface, the Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 retains the world record at 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) in 1989 and still is the deepest artificial point on Earth. [4]

  9. Stage station - Wikipedia

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    Yard of the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, 1831 Spent coach-horses Place de Passy, Paris. A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a facility along a main road or trade route where a traveller can rest and/or replace exhausted working animals (mostly riding horses) for fresh ones, since long journeys are much faster with ...

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