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	Royal Observatory, Greenwich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO) was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II.
		When Greenwich was an active observatory, geographical coordinates were referred to a local oblate spheroid called a datum, whose surface closely matched local mean sea level, called the geoid.
		Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was at one time based on the time observations made at Greenwich (until 1954).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Greenwich_Observatory (871 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Royal Greenwich Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The original site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), which was built as a workplace for the Astronomer Royal, was on a hill in Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London, overlooking the River Thames.
		The observatory was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II.
		Greenwich Mean Time was at one time based on the time observations made at Greenwich, before being superseded by Coordinated Universal Time.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Royal_Greenwich_Observatory (503 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory
		The observatory is administratively responsible for the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, South Africa, where there is a 74-in.
		The Royal Greenwich Observatory also includes the Nautical Almanac Office, which publishes the national navigational almanacs, and is responsible for the national time service, on which is based the worldwide system of time zones.
		From the appointment of John Flamsteed as its first director until 1972, the director of the observatory held the title of astronomer royal.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0842579.html (276 words)

	Royal Observatory, Greenwich - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Categories: Astronomical observatories in the United Kingdom
		The original site of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO), which was built as a workplace for the Astronomer Royal, was on a hill in Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London, overlooking the River Thames.
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	voyager.in /Royal_Greenwich_Observatory (591 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory
		The National Maritime Museum has launched an appeal to raise money for a new planetarium and improved educational facilities at the......
		The Story of Time.('The Story of Time' exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England)
		Greenwich Meanings: Clocks and Things in Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction.(Greenwich Mean Time in 20th century literature)
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0842579 (383 words)

	Chapter Seven - Making Time on Planet Earth
		There seems to be a minor civil war brewing over whether January 1, 2000 or January 1, 2001 is indeed the dawning of the new millennium.
		This date is officially endorsed by the The Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Encyclopedia Britannica, The US Naval Observatory, Webster's New Third International Dictionary, the World Almanac, and other arbirters of officialdom.
		The roots of this logic defying quirk trace back to a Scythian monk by the name of Dionysius Exiguus, alias Dennis the Diminutive, assigned the task of establishing a fixed date for Easter Sunday in what was to become the year 526 AD.
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