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Re: Sextant accuracies


Subject: Re: Sextant accuracies
From: Gary Harkins (HTYCGARY@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 22:05:54 EST


In a message dated 3/17/2003 9:13:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ffive@XXX.XXX writes:

> Just to see if I've got this (un)clear. We end up with part of the
> circumference of a circle, the circular LOP, which runs through the 2
> objects?
>

Yes, and any point on that circle will form the same angle with the 2
objects. That is why you know that you are somewhere on that circle, because
you have plotted all possibilities that will form that angle.

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