Great ellipse
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Great ellipse
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A great ellipse is an ellipse passing through two points on a spheroid and having the same center as that of the spheroid. Equivalently, it is an ellipse on the surface of a spheroid and centered on the origin, or the curve formed by intersecting the spheroid by a plane through its center.
For points that are separated by less than about a quarter of the circumference of the earth, about 10 000 k m , the length of the great ellipse connecting the points is close to the geodesic distance.
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Ellipse on a spheroid centered on its origin
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2023-08-02T18:10:13Z
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