- Industry: Aerospace
- Number of terms: 16933
- Number of blossaries: 2
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The Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research.
The study of the size and shape of earth, the measurement of terrestrial gravitational forces, and the location of fixed points on earth's surface.
Industry:Astronomy
The speed that any object must acquire in order to escape from a planet's gravitation.
Industry:Astronomy
The degree of flattening of an ellipse and how much it deviates from a circular shape. With reference to the orbit of a planet, the distance between the center of its orbit and the center of the primary about which it revolves.
Industry:Astronomy
The apparent daily rotation of the heavens from east to west; an effect of earth's rotation about its axis.
Industry:Astronomy
The distance from one side of a body to the other, measured through the center.
Industry:Astronomy
Transmission of heat by moving heated gases. In a hot-air furnace the heated air rises and cooler, heavier air falls.
Industry:Astronomy
The amount of matter in a unit volume of a substance; usually the mass per unit of volume.
Industry:Astronomy
The deflection of particles or radiation by scattering processes through angles greater than 90 degrees with respect to the original direction of motion.
Industry:Astronomy
The distance in degrees along the horizon, westward from the south point of the horizon, to the place where a vertical circle through the star or other object intersects the horizon.
Industry:Astronomy
