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the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the positions and motions of the celestial bodies

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  • The plate scale of the CCD then comes into play as angstroms per pixel instead of the usual astrometric measure arc/secs per pixel.
  • The sad thing about it is that small nongravitational forces and astrometric errors make an accurate collision prediction very hard to do more than a few years out.
  • He could talk about the most futuristic notions, and hold pure philosophical discourse over a glass of wine, yet also develop the most precise astrometric tools of his...
  • As for the meantime, we have the two most important astrophysical missions of the NASA James Webb Telescope (JWT) and the ESA's internationally collaborated astrometric...
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