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  2. Hill sphere - Wikipedia

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    The Hill sphere is a common model for the calculation of a gravitational sphere of influence. It is the most commonly used model to calculate the spatial extent of gravitational influence of an astronomical body ( m ) in which it dominates over the gravitational influence of other bodies, particularly a primary ( M ). [ 1 ]

  3. Discrete global grid - Wikipedia

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    Example: grid with coordinates (φ,λ,z) where z is the elevation. A standard Geoid surface. The z coordinate is zero for all grid, thus can be omitted, (φ,λ). Ancient standards, before 1687 (the Newton's Principia publication), used a "reference sphere"; in nowadays the Geoid is mathematically abstracted as reference ellipsoid.

  4. Geodesic polyhedron - Wikipedia

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    Example model An artistic model created by Father Magnus Wenninger called Order in Chaos, representing a chiral subset of triangles of a 16-frequency icosahedral geodesic sphere, {3,5+} 16,0: A virtual copy showing icosahedral symmetry great circles. The 6-fold rotational symmetry is illusionary, not existing on the icosahedron itself.

  5. Geodesic grid - Wikipedia

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    Such a grid does not have a straightforward relationship to latitude and longitude, but conforms to many of the main criteria for a statistically valid discrete global grid. [9] Primarily, the cells' area and shape are generally similar, especially near the poles where many other spatial grids have singularities or heavy distortion.

  6. Location of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Cited diameter is that of the Sun's Hill sphere; the region of its gravitational influence. [28] Local Interstellar Cloud: 9.2 pc 2.84×10 14: Interstellar cloud of gas through which the Sun and a number of other stars are currently travelling. [29] Local Bubble: 2.82–250 pc 8.70×10 13 –7.71×10 15

  7. Lists of uniform tilings on the sphere, plane, and hyperbolic ...

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    In geometry, many uniform tilings on sphere, euclidean plane, and hyperbolic plane can be made by Wythoff construction within a fundamental triangle, (p q r), defined by internal angles as π/p, π/q, and π/r. Special cases are right triangles (p q 2).

  8. More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.

  9. Peirce quincuncial projection - Wikipedia

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    Each grid line is a spherical conic. According to Peirce, his projection has the following properties (Peirce, 1879): The sphere is presented in a square. The part where the exaggeration of scale amounts to double that at the centre is only 9% of the area of the sphere, against 13% for the Mercator projection and 50% for the stereographic ...