International Latitude Service
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title:
International Latitude Service
text:
The International Latitude Service was created by the International Geodetic Association in 1899 to study variations in latitude caused by polar motion, precession, or "wobble" of the Earth's axis. In 1891, at the meeting of the Permanent Commission of the International Geodetic Association in Florence, Wilhelm Foerster referred to the discovery by Seth Carlo Chandler of the polar motion predicted by Leonhard Euler in 1765 and his impact on the determination latitudes. He proposed that the Inter
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Observatory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Latitude_Service
date created:
2004-07-10T19:31:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:16:43Z
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