{"id":9352,"date":"2024-08-25T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T10:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2024-08-25T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T10:56:13","slug":"fun-fact-prime-meridian-%e6%9c%83%e8%ae%8a%e5%97%8e-prime-meridian-%e2%89%a0-international-reference-meridian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/fun-fact-prime-meridian-%e6%9c%83%e8%ae%8a%e5%97%8e-prime-meridian-%e2%89%a0-international-reference-meridian\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun fact : Prime Meridian \u6703\u8b8a\u55ce? (Prime meridian \u2260 International Reference Meridian)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reference:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/stories\/blog\/astronomy\/prime-meridian-unmoved\"> https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/stories\/blog\/astronomy\/prime-meridian-unmoved<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21 Aug 2015<\/p>\n<p>In August 2015 a paper was published by scientists in the US explaining why the <strong>Prime Meridian<\/strong> at the Royal Observatory Greenwich <strong>is 102 metres to the west<\/strong> <strong>of the prime meridian used by satellite based navigation and timekeeping<\/strong>, known as the <strong>International Reference Meridian<\/strong> or<strong> IRM<\/strong>. The paper created quite a stir in the media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why The Prime Meridian Isn&#039;t At 0\u00ba\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DmvHZ4omB2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference: https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/stories\/blog\/astronomy\/prime-meridian-unmoved 21 Aug 2015 In August 2015 a paper was published by scientists in the US explaining why the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory Greenwich is 102 metres to the west of the prime meridian used by satellite based navigation and timekeeping, known as the International Reference Meridian or IRM. The paper created<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/fun-fact-prime-meridian-%e6%9c%83%e8%ae%8a%e5%97%8e-prime-meridian-%e2%89%a0-international-reference-meridian\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9357,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}