Examples of celestial navigation in a Sentence
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These changes must be taken into account for successful celestial navigation.
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Kim Breen, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
The item in question was a 1,000-year-old astrolabe, a tool designed by the ancients for celestial navigation, telling time and reading horoscopes.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
Your new telescope won’t magically download celestial navigation in your head.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
On the way to the base, Mr. Sadler became fascinated by celestial navigation.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
But who would’ve thought the humble dung beetle had celestial navigation figured out?
—Meredith Carpenter, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2014
Some examples of ancient TEK include midwifery, celestial navigation and fish conservation.
—Moriba Jah, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
For thousands of years, celestial navigation was only practiced by men in Polynesia.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2023
Both missions will also carry technology demonstrations to further NASA’s interplanetary capabilities: VERITAS will fly with a deep-space atomic clock for enhanced celestial navigation, and DAVINCI+ will host a novel high-resolution ultraviolet imager.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 3 June 2021
Kim Breen, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
The item in question was a 1,000-year-old astrolabe, a tool designed by the ancients for celestial navigation, telling time and reading horoscopes.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
Your new telescope won’t magically download celestial navigation in your head.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
On the way to the base, Mr. Sadler became fascinated by celestial navigation.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
But who would’ve thought the humble dung beetle had celestial navigation figured out?
—Meredith Carpenter, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2014
Some examples of ancient TEK include midwifery, celestial navigation and fish conservation.
—Moriba Jah, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
For thousands of years, celestial navigation was only practiced by men in Polynesia.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2023
Both missions will also carry technology demonstrations to further NASA’s interplanetary capabilities: VERITAS will fly with a deep-space atomic clock for enhanced celestial navigation, and DAVINCI+ will host a novel high-resolution ultraviolet imager.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 3 June 2021
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“Celestial navigation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/celestial%20navigation. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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