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Latitude and longtitide are used to indicated the fixed location of a point or sphere in relation to two of that sphere's opposite poles and one line joining them. Here on Earth the two poles are the North Pole and the South Pole, and the line joining them is the one which runs through London, England. Latitide and longitude do not apply to a planet, as it orbits the Sun and is always moving.

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