Re: shuttle disaster
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 00:04, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:32:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> > My dictionary (American Heritage College Dictionary) sz they're
> > synonyms. Save your valuable exemption for a real error :)
>
> And American Heritage Dictionary also screws up the definition of
> "hacker," giving it the meaning of "cracker." This should be a clue
> in this group. Use dict instead, as you can (usually) get multiple
> sources for the definition (geosynchronous and geostationary being an
> exception, apparently).
>
> All geostationary orbits are also geosynchronous, but not all
> geosynchronous orbits are geostationary.
>
> baloo@ursine:~$ dict geosynchronous
> 1 definition found
>
> From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
>
> geosynchronous
> adj : of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours
> (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed
> with respect to the earth)
>
> baloo@ursine:~$ dict geostationary
> 1 definition found
>
> From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
>
> geostationary
> adj : of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the
> position
> in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth; "a
> geostationary satellite"
Ah ha! The satellite can be in a polar orbit at 35,000 (38,000?) Km,
so would be geosynchronous but not geostationary.
Does American Heritage have a BTS?
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