Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet EQUATOR

Definition av EQUATOR

1. (astronomi, geografi) ekvator

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• Barnard's Star is among the most studied red dwarfs because of its proximity and favorable location for observation near the celestial equator.
• Costa Rica is located on the Central American Isthmus, surrounding the point 10° north of the equator and 84° west of the prime meridian.
• Delphinus is a small constellation in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere, close to the celestial equator.
• The declination angle is measured north (positive) or south (negative) of the celestial equator, along the hour circle passing through the point in question.
• A solar equinox is a moment in time when the Sun crosses the Earth's equator, which is to say, appears directly above the equator, rather than north or south of the equator.
• In any ellipsoid, the length of a degree of longitude at the equator is exactly 60 geographical miles.
• India is situated north of the equator between 8°4' north (the mainland) to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' east to 97°25' east longitude.
• Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia.
• The islands' spread straddles the equator and the 180th meridian, making Kiribati the only country in the world located simultaneously in all four hemispheres: the Northern, Southern, Western, and Eastern hemispheres.
• The metre was originally defined in 1791 by the French National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth's polar circumference is approximately.
• The Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south.
• When applied to world maps, the Mercator projection inflates the size of lands the further they are from the equator.
• From the north it is joined by the Coca River, having its sources in the gorges of Cayambe volcano on the equator, and also a powerful river, the Aguarico having its headwaters between Cayambe and the Colombia frontier.
• The Sun passes directly overhead of the equator, on average, at approximately this point in the sky, at the March equinox.
• It's bordered on the Black Sea, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe—the Atlantic Coast—and the most easterly—the Ural Mountains.
• The primary direction of the system is the March equinox, the ascending node of the ecliptic (red) on the celestial equator (blue).
• Situated slightly north of the equator, over 90% of its territory is covered by rainforests, the highest proportion of forest cover in the world.
• Senegal is a coastal West African nation located 14 degrees north of the equator and 14 degrees west of the Prime Meridian.
• Sierra Leone is located on the west coast of Africa, between the 7th and 10th parallels north of the equator.
• Sextans is a faint, minor constellation on the celestial equator which was introduced in 1687 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius.

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