Lat/Long system for Mars continued
On Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 4:18:56 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 1:20:01 PM UTC-7, David Goldfarb wrote:
In article ,
Quadibloc wrote:
On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 6:05:47 AM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
If you have a Prime Meridian then it is implicit that a Martian
dateline exists
as it does on Earth -
Why, yes. And Isaac Asimov even wrote a short story about it.
Wasn't that Poul Anderson? The date line on Mars was a plot point
in "The Martian Crown Jewels". I don't remember Asimov using it,
although it's possible my memory is failing me.
Oh, my memory could have failed me.
It did fail me partly, but I was *not* thinking of Poul Anderson's story.
Instead, I was thinking of something rather shorter and less elaborate, by
Arthur C. Clarke: "Trouble with Time".
John Savard
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