planetary aberration
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[edit]Noun
[edit]planetary aberration (plural planetary aberrations)
- (astronomy) A deviation of where a planet appears to be, due to the motion of the planet during the time that the light reaches the Earth.
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[edit]- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “planetary aberration”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.