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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sidereal day see sidereal time . ... Read more
sidereal day
A Dictionary of Astronomy sidereal day The interval of time between successive transits of the mean...of the equinoxes, the mean equinox is not a completely fixed sidereal point. As a result the sidereal day is 0.0084 s shorter than the Earth's rotation period... Read more
sidereal day
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences sidereal day The time it takes for the Earth to complete one rotation...position in relation to the position of the fixed stars. The sidereal day is 4.09 minutes shorter than the mean solar day, because the movement of the Earth in its solar orbit... Read more

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Donne's 'A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day.' (John Donne)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...And shortest night, when longest fitter were; Yet never day so long, but late would pass. (478) Spenser might pretend...face value. A wedding at the winter solstice (St. Lucy's day) would, at the moment it protracted the pleasures of the...Donne marshals at the start of A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, ... Read more
Days Gone
Newspaper article from: Courier-News (Elgin, IL); 10/1/2001; ; 578 words ; ...precision instruments to the thousands of watches which each day stream from the factory to people of all sorts in the daily walks of life." The equipment included a mean and a sidereal clock, a chronograph, and a table showing when hundreds of stars... Read more
Donne's A NOCTURNAL UPON S. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY.(John Donne's elegiac poetry)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...And shortest night, when longest fitter were; Yet never day so long, but late would pass. (478) Spenser might pretend...face value. A wedding at the winter solstice (St. Lucy's day) would, at the moment it protracted the pleasures of the...Donne marshals at the start of A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, ... Read more
Dance of the planets and our moon.(SCOPE ON THE SKIES)
Magazine article from: Science Scope; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...illustrates the difference in the sidereal and synodic periods of our...will be after an additional day or so of Earth revolution...based on. The length of the sidereal month is 27.33 days, and...Mercury, and Venus over a 121-day period in 2008. On the left...Mercury is 118 days, while the ... Read more
ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/21/1990; 177 words ; Q. Does the length of a day - 23 hours and 56 minutes -- have any...leap years? K.N., Chestnut Hill A. The day to which you refer is called the sidereal day and, for your information, measures 23...practical purposes, we use the 24-hour solar day in measuring time. We have leap years... Read more
1999 Second takes a leap
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/23/1998; ; 614 words ; ...keeping the world's time in line, insert an extra second into the day. The "leap second" will be added to the last minute just before...agencies say the move is necessary to help clocks stay even with sidereal time -- the time according to movements of the sun and Earth...array of cells for up to 20 kilowatt ... Read more
Miscalculation
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/6/1990; 234 words ; ...Under a paragraph headed "The Day" it was stated: "One solar day is 24 hours, 3 minutes, 56.65...two different units. One solar day is the stated number of hours, minutes and seconds of sidereal time. Sidereal time is a quantity...65 seconds in the course of a day. We do not round it ... Read more
Luna.(moon)(Column)
Magazine article from: Science Scope; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...students Does the Moon rise and set every day? (Yes. Even though we may not be able...the Moon, it still rises and sets every day. The new Moon, for example, rises and...rise about 50-60 minutes earlier each day. Following the full Moon phase, the Moon...takes to return to the same phase. The ... Read more
Dutton's Nautical Navigation.
Magazine article from: Armada International; 2/1/2004; 286 words ; ...solar time, the types of time involved in navigation (ephemeral, sidereal, Greenwich Mean and Universal, etc) and the usage of the Nautical...but to provide a practical reference tool that will save the day when the batteries in the GPS run dry. Thomas J. Cutler US Naval... Read more
ASTRONOMY
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Solar System series. Going beyond the basics to discuss, among other things, the difference between a planet's sidereal day and solar day and the sun's elevenyear sunspot cycle, these titles are filled with striking photos. The design is unfortunate... Read more

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