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The Organization of Space: Frames, Systems and Standards
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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The term “frame of reference” or “reference frame” has long been established in physics. The recent emergence of the use of this very term in astronomy to denote “a catalogue of the adopted coordinates of reference points that serves to define, or realize, a particular coordinate frame” is misleading because “a catalogue of adopted coordinates” must necessarily consists of estimates which cannot uniquely define a coordinate system.
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