lunar.distances: Lunar Distance Categories

lunar.distancesR 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

lunar.distance

Examples

print(lunar.distances)

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