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  2. Magellan Navigation - Wikipedia

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    Magellan Navigation, Inc. is an American producer of consumer and professional grade global positioning system receivers, named after Ferdinand Magellan, the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe. Headquartered in San Dimas, California, with European sales and engineering centres in Nantes, France and Moscow, Russia, Magellan also produces ...

  3. GPS week number rollover - Wikipedia

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    The GPS week number rollover is a phenomenon that happens every 1,024 weeks, which is about 19.6 years. The Global Positioning System (GPS) broadcasts a date, including a week number counter that is stored in only ten binary digits, whose range is therefore 0–1,023. After 1,023, an integer overflow causes the internal value to roll over ...

  4. Help:A quick guide to templates - Wikipedia

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    To get there, type "Template:foo" in the search box (see search), or make a wikilink like [[Template:foo]] somewhere, such as in the sandbox, and click on it. Once you are there, just click "edit" or "edit this page" at the very top of the page (not the documentation edit button lower down) and edit it in the same way that you would any other page.

  5. El Ali meteorite - Wikipedia

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    The El Ali meteorite (Arabic) or Ceel Cali (Somali) (known traditionally by the locals as Shiid-Birood and recently by the finders as Nightfall), literally meaning, "Ali's Well," is a 15,150-kilogram (16.70-short-ton) meteorite that was known to the local population in Somalia for generations, but first only officially recognized as a meteorite in 2020.

  6. Malachite - Wikipedia

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    Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, with the formula Cu 2 CO 3 (OH) 2.This opaque, green-banded mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses, in fractures and deep, underground spaces, where the water table and hydrothermal fluids provide the means for chemical precipitation.

  7. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $525.7 million [3] How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (also known as How to Train Your Dragon 3) is a 2019 American animated fantasy film loosely based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and the ...

  8. SPOT Satellite Messenger - Wikipedia

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    SPOT Satellite Messenger. SPOT is a GPS tracking device that uses the Globalstar satellite network [1] to provide text messaging and GPS tracking (depending on the subscription type purchased). [2] [3] It has a coverage area that includes a large portion of the planet, with the exception of extreme northern and southern latitudes and parts of ...

  9. Abercorn - Wikipedia

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    Abercorn. / 55.993; -3.473. Abercorn ( Gaelic: Obar Chùirnidh, Old English: Æbbercurnig) is a village and civil parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around 5 km (3.1 mi) west of South Queensferry. The parish had a population of 458 at the 2011 Census.