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Mean anomaly In Keplerian elliptical motion the mean anomaly is the ...	Mean coordinates Mean coordinates are coordinates relative to the equinox and ...
Mean ecliptic for the date The mean ecliptic for the date is the perpendicular plane at ...	Mean equatorial of the date The mean equatorial of the date is deduced from the true ...
Mean motion In Keplerian elliptical motion, mean motion is the angular ...	MEO orbit An MEO orbit is an intermediate orbit between low orbit and ...
Meridian This is an imaginary line joining the north and the south, ...	Meridian of a celestial body The meridian of a celestial body is a semi-great circle of ...
MERIS MERIS was taken on board the satellite Envisat. It is a wide ...	Messier 12 Messier 12 is a globular cluster discovered by Charles ...
Messier 82 Messier 82, also called "the cigar galaxy", is a ...	Metallicity Metallicity is the quantity or mass of atoms heavier than ...
Meteorite A rocky body of extra-terrestrial origin that has survived ...	Meteorite swarm A meteorite swarm is a ring of particles spread out along ...
Meteosat Meteosat is probably the most well known Earth observation ...	Metop Metop will be the next contribution to European ...
Microgravity Microgravity is gravity that is much weaker than the Earth's.	Milky Way The galaxy that the solar system belongs to. History of ...
Mimas Mimas (Saturn I) was discovered by Herschel in 1789. Mimas ...	Minerva The small Minerva robot is first and foremost an ingenious ...