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sidereal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sidereal,
meaning "of the stars", may
refer to:
Sidereal time
Sidereal day
Sidereal month Sidereal year...
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Sidereal time ("
sidereal"
pronounced /saɪˈdɪəriəl, sə-/ sy-DEER-ee-əl, sə-) is a
system of
timekeeping used
especially by astronomers.
Using sidereal...
- A
sidereal year (/saɪˈdɪəri.əl/, US also /sɪ-/; from
Latin sidus 'asterism, star'), also
called a
sidereal orbital period, is the time that
Earth or another...
- In astrology,
sidereal and
tropical are
terms that
refer to two
different systems of
ecliptic coordinates used to
divide the
ecliptic into
twelve "signs"...
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celestial objects in general, the
orbital period typically refers to the
sidereal period,
determined by a 360°
revolution of one body
around its primary...
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distinguished from the
sidereal day,
which is one
complete rotation in
relation to
distant stars and is the
basis of
sidereal time. In the case of a tidally...
- Anti-
sidereal time and extended-
sidereal time are
artificial time
standards used to
analyze the
daily variation in the
number of
cosmic rays received...
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minutes and 11.5 seconds, the
sidereal month is
about 2.2 days
shorter than the
synodic month. Thus,
about 13.37
sidereal months, but
about 12.37 synodic...
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Sidereus Nuncius (usually
Sidereal Messenger, also
Starry Messenger or
Sidereal Message) is a
short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet)
published in Neo-Latin...
- asteroid) has two definitions. The
first one
corresponds to the
sidereal rotation period (or
sidereal day), i.e., the time that the
object takes to
complete a...
