wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (09/21/84)
If I were on the moon, where would the north and south celestial poles be? What is the rate of precession on the moon (if it's at all signif- icant)? Same set of questions for Mars too. I started thinking about this question after reading a Hal Clement short story ("Mistaken for Granted", I believe it was -- unfortunately, my SF collection is at home, but my terminal is at my office) in which the main character (an Earthling) got hopelessly lost on the moon because he subconsciously assumed that he would be going due north if he followed Polaris. -- Rich Wales UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024 // (213) 825-5683 ARPA: wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!wales