Geocentric Coordinate Time

Geocentric Co-ordinate Time English Alternative forms en Geocentric Co-ordinate Time rare Proper noun Geocentric Coordinate Time 1983– A coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth, equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth. en 1983 Heinrich Karl Eichhorn; Robert Jay Leacock Astrometric Techniques: Proceedings of the 109th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A., 9–12 January 1984 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vYGRAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Geocentric+Coordinate+Time%22&dq=%22Geocentric+Coordinate+Time%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=K3oDT9HIAset8QPNkdmmDg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA 24 Reidel 1986 9027722579 9789027722577 In some recent papers (for example: Ashby and Bertotti 1983, 1984) the satellite motion is treated in the local inertial geocentric reference frame with geocentric coordinate time being an independent argument. Translations time standard French: fr Temps-coordonnée géocentrique Further reading en Time zones