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    Re: NOW what?
    From: Alexandre Eremenko
    Date: 2015 Aug 14, 23:35 +0000

    This  article is very confusing: the prime meridian cannot be wrong.
    The prime meridian is arbitrary (unlike the equator).
    Where you decide to draw it there it will be.
    
    That GPS designers decided to place it differently from the 18 century astronomers,
    and why did they do this, the article does not explain.
    
    Alex.
    
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    Subject: [NavList] NOW what?
    
    http://www.iflscience.com/prime-meridian-greenwich-wrong-place
    
    
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