lunar.distances {lunar} | R Documentation |
Lunar Distance Categories
Description
Return category labels for lunar distances.
Usage
lunar.distances
Format
An object of class character
of length 5.
Details
These are category names corresponding to distances
from the center of the Earth to the center of its moon.
Distance category names are used in the output of the
lunar.distance
function if its
name
option is set to TRUE
.
The perigee occurs at roughly 56
Earth radii, and
the apogee at about 62.8
Earth radii.
These categories are not determined according to any
common standard.
They may have different precise definitions
for their bounds in different analyses.
See Also
Examples
print(lunar.distances)
[Package lunar version 0.2-1 Index]