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PARALLAX (Gr. aapa?X6, alternately)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 760 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARALLAX (Gr. aapa?X6, alternately)  , in
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astronomy, the apparent
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change in the direction of a heavenly
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body when viewed from two different points .
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Geocentric
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parallax is the
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angle between the direction of the body as seen from the
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surface of the
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earth and the direction in which it appears from the centre of the earth .
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Annual parallax is the angle between the direction in which a
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star appears from the earth and the 1 direction in which it appears from the centre of the
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sun . For stellar parallaxes see STAR; the
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solar parallax is discussed below .

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