Bessel Ellipsoid

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The Bessel ellipsoid (or Bessel 1841) is an important reference ellipsoid of geodesy.

Bessel ellipsoid 1841 (defined by log a and ƒ):

• a = 6,377,397.155 m
• ƒ = 1 / 299.1528153513233 (0.003342 773154 ± 0.000005)
• b = 6,356,078.963 m.

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