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Motions of the Earth and their Effects
(some general links can also be found in the sky objects resource page)

General Information

  • Celestial Body Motion: US Naval Observatory page.

Motion of the Earth

  • Revolution: Greenwich Observatory pages on leap seconds and leap years.
  • Rotation: Paul Carlisle's EarthViewer; Wikipedia page on solar time.
  • Precession: NASA page.
  • Seasons, Aphelion/Perihelion: USNO data page; Windows to the Universe page; NASA page.

Timekeeping and Navigation

  • Time in General: Britannica.com article.
  • Timekeeping: Royal Observatory Greewich site; Ohio State University page.
  • Sundials: Sundials on the internet; NASA page; North American Sundial Society site.
  • Time of the Day: Official US time; Daylight Saving Time webexhibit; Time and Date.com.
  • Calendars: Bill Hollon's site; L.E. Doggett's article; Calendar Zone site; Web Exhibits site; M Heydari-Malayeri's article on the Iranian calendar.
  • Days of the Week: InDepthInfo.com page.
  • Latitude: Rice University site.

Books

  • Alan W. Hirschfeld, Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, Freeman.
  • K. Mainzer, The Little Book of Time, Copernicus 2002.

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