Conventional International Origin

Conventional International Origin (CIO) is a conventionally defined reference axis of the pole's average location over the year 1900.^[1]

Polar motion is the movement of Earth's rotation axis across its surface. The axis of the Earth's rotation tends, as the axis of a gyroscope, to maintain its orientation to inertial space. The Conventional International Origin is used to measure this movement.

References

↑ Muneendra Kumar (2007). "Coordinates : A resource on positioning, navigation and beyond - Blog Archive - The Real Definition of ITRF". mycoordinates.org. Retrieved 2014-05-22.

General

Bernard Guinot (2003). "Newsletter 2". "Nomenclature for Fundamental Astronomy" (NFA). IAU. Retrieved 2010-02-07.

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