Which way is North in space?
464463
Just set your reference point by yourself. Everywhere can be North in space.
194469
There are three types of North to consider.\n\nMagnetic north is determined by the Earth's magnetic field. This point moves considerably wandering in an eliptical path on a daily basis, and moves even more over a period of decades. On average it moves 10 km per year. Because of this all maps require a correction to be made for the reading of a compass in order to match the map. This is known as declination, also called magnetic declination. Declination also varies according to variations in the Earth's magnetic field in different geographic areas.  In order to use a magnetic compass to navigate with a map you must know your local declination value. \n\nTrue north is determined by the celestial North pole, which is the term used by navigators for the position of the star Polaris. This point will only be useful for about another thousand years because of the precession of the Earth during its orbit. Precession could be described as a wobble in the Earth's axis of rotation. \n\nCelestial north, or grid north is the point where the earth's spin axis hypothetically extends through the earth. Relative to our position on the planet this does not change because it is essentially an arbitrary point decided on by cartographers. However it is not consistent from one geographic coordinate system to another. This is because a globe is the only way to accurately represent all points on the earth and a map using any two dimensional coordinate system will have errors in some part of the map.
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There are actually four north poles. Neither of them have a sign as the some of the poles tend to woble. They are as follows:\nThe North Magnetic Pole – the point on the Earth's surface where the Earth's magnetic field points directly downwards. This pole is constantly wandering; its estimated 2005 position was 82.7° N 114.4° W. \nThe North Geomagnetic Pole – the point of intersection of the Earth's surface with the axis of a simple magnetic dipole (like a bar magnet) that best approximates the Earth's actual more complex magnetic field. Like the North Magnetic Pole it constantly wanders; as of 2005 it was located at approximately 79.74° N 71.78° W. \nThe Northern Pole of Inaccessibility – the point in the Arctic Ocean farthest from land, at 84°03′N 174°51′W. \nThe North Celestial Pole – an imaginary point in the northern sky towards which the Earth's axis of rotation points.
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From Wikipedia, "In solid geometry, there are Six Cardinal Directions: north, south, east, west, heaven, and land. Or forward, back, left, right, upward, and downward."\n\nOn a map there are four cardinal directions (North, East, South, and West), but these can be further split into sixteen directions, proceeding clockwise from North: N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, ESE, SE, SSE, S, WSW, SW, WSW, W, WNW, NW, NNW.\n\nSo the number of cardinal directions is determined by the context - geometry or geography.
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True north is the actual, geographic location of the North Pole of the Earth, that is, the axis around which the Earth rotates.  Magnetic North is where the Earth's magnetic field "exits" the surface of the planet.  It is what attracts the needle of a magnetic compass to point "north".  Because magnetic north and the north pole are not located in the same place (the magnetic north pole is currently located north of Canada and west of Greenland) in order to use a magnetic compass to navigate, you have to apply a correction factor in degrees to make up in the difference in location from geographic north.  This difference will of course change depending on where you are on the Earth's surface.
344004
With a compass that doesn't point north. lol
1184313
Well, given the earth would rotate at 180 m/s and the parcel is traveling north at 1m/s from an overhead view of the earth (with the north pole being central in the picture) you would end up with a spiraled trajectory based on PHI squared. until reaching the north pole then I suppose it would pass that point and continue with yet another spiral southward until eventually you covered the entire planet with some trajectory line.  \n\n  Otherwise it would be a PHI spiral ending in the north pole.
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your not that smart. north is not the sky, and south is not the ground. look the direction the sun rises, thats east. now turn your self 90 degrees to the left, thats north, turn another 90 degrees to the left, thats west, and where the sun sets. turn another 90 degrees left, thats south.     and most maps have a compass rose on them, it shows which way is north.\n\nyou were obvisouly NOT a boy scout
823270
yeah but north or south
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If your on one of the poles the needle will keep pointing in the direction of north, but if your on magnetic north the needle will just start spinning around the place.
863293
In the opposite direction of the applied force or motion
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There is no sideways in space, either.\n\nDirections are relative to perspective. The direction that is down to me is the same direction as up is to people on the other side of this round world.\n\nMaybe the earth is inside-out?
864500
It's arbitrary.  We can say whatever side we want is north.
141095
A magnetic field has a north and south polarity. Gravitation is mostly the same every where on Earth.
53463
there is no direction in outer space.. thers is no up and no down.. we have this kind directin because of gravity.. our geographic north is the magnetic south and vice versa..
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shosh is correct. Cause they are! The pull of gravity comes from the earth. Don't get hung up on UP and DOWN. There is no UP or DOWN... What is UP? Why would you assume that you are UP and I am DOWN? Or vise versa? There is no UP or DOWN. We have just chosen north as up as a convenience. You could hold a map in any direction or a globe at any angle it doesn't matter. We just have tried to standardize our thinking. We are working with a 1000 year old model that doesn't take into account what we know today.
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If you can't afford a compass, wake up early in the morning and look for the sun.  It will rise in the East.  If you turn 90° to the right, that will be South.  West is the opposite direction from East and North is the opposite direction from South.