Abstract
In 1988 a team of surveyors used the signals from the Naystar satellites to re-establish the locations of 250,000 landmarks sprinkled across the United States. According to one early press report, their space-age measurements caused the research team to “move the Washington Monument 94.5 feet to the northwest!” And during that same surveying campaign, they moved the Empire State Building 120.5 feet to the northeast, and they repositioned Chicago’s Sears Tower 90.1 feet to the northwest.
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Logsdon, T. (1995). Geodetic Surveying and Satellite Positioning. In: Understanding the Navstar. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6901-2_13
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