Radial velocity Radial velocity The radial velocity of an object with respect to a given point is the rate of change of the distance between the object and the point. That is, the radial velocity is the component of the object's velocity that points in the direction of the radius connecting the object and the point. In astronomy, the point is usually taken to be the observer on Earth, so the radial velocity then denotes the speed with which the object moves away from or approaches the Earth. In astronomy, radial velocity is often measured to the first order of approximation by
What Must Be Said to his treatment by dictatorships in Myanmar and East Germany. Translations of the poem were published in national newspapers and their websites from 5 April 2012. In Norway, a national newspaper published a translation on 10 April. The poem has already been translated into at least 17 major languages. What Must Be Said "What Must Be Said" () is a 2012 prose poem by the German writer Günter Grass, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. The poem discusses an alleged threat of annihilation of the Iranian people and the writer's fears that Germany's delivery to Israel of a