SIDEREAL YEAR

time required for the earth to complete an orbit of the sun relative to the stars. The sidereal year is 365 days, 6 hr, 9 min, 9.5 sec of mean solar time (see solar time). It is 20 min longer than the tropical year because of the precession of the equinoxes; for this reason, the sidereal year does not stay in step with the seasons.

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books on: Sidereal Year  - 194 results

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The Oxford Companion to the Year
Book by Bonnie Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Calendar, Calendars--History
...in which centennial leap years after 1800 are omitted unless...22 March, 31 December. sidereal year: the earths orbital period...calendars, based on the tropical year, and certain Hindu calendars based on the sidereal year. solar regulars: numbers...
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A Hundred Years of Fiction: Writing Wales in English
Book by Stephen Knight; University of Wales Press, 2004
Subjects: English Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--Welsh Authors--History And Criticism
...novel explores in impressive depth. In his most recent novel, Sidereal Time (1998),153 Meredith has in part pursued the techniques...of a mystery in Shifts, Sarah Bowen, the central figure of Sidereal Time is explored in remorseless detail, physical and mental...
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Ten Years' Work of a Mountain Observatory: A Brief Account of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Book by George Ellery Hale; Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915
Subjects: Mount Wilson Observatory, Calif
...many of them lying beyond the boundary of the universe as at present known. The inconceivably great distance of these stars makes them of peculiar interest and importance in the study of the magnitude and structure of the sidereal system.
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The Summit of the Years
Book by John. Burroughs; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913
Subjects: Natural History--Outdoor Books
...wonderful that the globe itself should have been born out of the nebular mist -- the cosmic world-stuff in the womb of the great sidereal mother; that it should have had its fiery and turbulent youth; that it should have sobered and ripened with age; that its...
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Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered before the University of Aberdeen in the Years 1896-1898 - Vol. 2
Book by James Ward; A. & C. Black, 1903
Subjects: Agnosticism, Natural Theology, Religion And Science--1860-1899
...diminishing space and time indefinitely till the stone and its motions become infinitesimal, how does he know that the whole sidereal system will not then turn out to be more like the bird than the stone, an organised whole manifesting life and self-direction...
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journal articles on: Sidereal Year  - 45 results

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Local Sidereal Time, Global Geomagnetic Field Fluctuations, and Traffic Accidents
Journal article by Joakim Westerlund, Jan Dalkvist; The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 63, 1999
Subjects: Geomagnetic reversals--Analysis, Parapsychology and science--Analysis
LOCAL SIDEREAL TIME, GLOBAL GEOMAGNETIC FIELD...to be associated with Local Sidereal Time (LST) and that correlations...accidents in Sweden during the years 1985-1996 was examined for...that for the first half of the year in Sweden, 19h LST coincides...for the second half of the year with the time of the sunset...
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Local Sidereal Time, Global Geomagnetic Field Fluctuations and Memory
Journal article by Jan Dalkvist, Joakim Westerlund; The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 64, 2000
Subjects: Geomagnetism--Research, Memory--Research, Parapsychology--Research
LOCAL SIDEREAL TIME, GLOBAL GEOMAGNETIC FIELD FLUCTUATIONS AND...effect size appears to be associated with local sidereal time (LST) and that correlations between AC effect...ordinary) time of day and (ordinary) time of year.
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Whole-rock Aminostratigraphy of the Coorong Coastal Plain, South Australia: towards a 1 Million Year Record of Sea-level Highstands
Journal article by C. V. Murray-Wallace, B. P. Brooke, J. H. Cann, A. P. Belperio, R. P. Bourman; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 158, 2001
Subjects: Australia, Geological time, Geology, Kinetics, Sediments
...technique cannot resolve intervals of tens of years over timescales of thousands of years. The event dated by AAR will therefore predate...of an organism and lasting for several thousand years, followed by a much slower rate of racemization...
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Revisiting Accepted Science: The Indispensability of the History of Science
Journal article by George E. Smith; The Monist, Vol. 93, 2010
Subjects: Philosophy of science--Analysis, Science history--Analysis, Science/History and Nature of Science, Science--Analysis, Science--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Science--History
...the first two hundred years of orbital research based...slightly over a roughly 200 year period. FIGURE 2 OMITTED...end of the two thousand year tradition of taking sidereal time as our ultimate...during the two hundred years of orbital research predicated...on the three hundred-year history of evidence in...copies over the last 50 years than any other book in...
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Geomagnetic Fluctuations and Free-Response Anomalous Cognition: A New Understanding
Journal article by S. James P. Spottiswoode; The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 61, 1997
Subjects: Cognition--Research, Magnetic anomalies--Research, Parapsychology--Research
...Spottiswoode For some years there has been speculation...effect size versus local sidereal time with the correlation...times of the day and year over two decades and...transformation from local to sidereal time has taken any particular...constant through the 20 years of data analyzed here...cognition and local sidereal time. The Journal of...
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magazine articles on: Sidereal Year  - 11 results

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When the New Year Comes Twice
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 103, July 1994
Subjects: Calendars, China, Indigenous people, Rites & ceremonies, Yi Tribe
...To keep the year in step with the solar year (365-1/4 days) and the seasons, a thirteenth month was inserted every three years or so, according to carefully prescribed...is slightly longer than that of a solar year, the people who followed this practice gradually celebrated the two New Years days later and later in the year. The difference amounted to nearly one...
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2000 Stereo Image of the Year
Magazine article by Robert J. Leonard; PSA Journal, Vol. 67, March 2001
Subjects: Photographers--Technique, Photographs--Achievements and awards, Photography--Technique
2000 Stereo Image of the Year by Robert J. Leonard The 2000 Stereo Image of the Year "BOSSUS" by Boris Starosta...He used the telescope for sidereal tracking and corrective guiding...was done back in 1996, a year before I discovered stereoscopic...
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Stick-in-the-mud Science
Magazine article by Neil Degrasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 112, March 2003
Subjects: Experiments, Science
...On all other days of the year the Sun rises and sets elsewhere...That makes the solstice the years longest day, and the sticks...is the lowest, creating the years longest noontime shadow. What...the zenith only two days a year (OK, just one day a year...next. That interval, the sidereal day, lasts twentythree hours...
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Commonplace Book
Magazine article by Andre Bernard; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Autumn 1999
Subjects: Time in literature--Quotations, Time--Portrayals, Time--Quotations
...descending into the vale of years; and that the most respectable...the week, the month, the year, the decade, the century, the years position in the leap-year cycle, hour, minute, and...of my choice, temperature, sidereal time, moon phase, time of...
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Doubling Time
Magazine article by Neil de Grasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 109, October 2000
Subjects: Astrophysics, Research, Science, Trends
...work published seventy years earlier. This masterpiece...textbook published last year, agrees: Astronomy...universe written 110 years ago by the prolific astronomy...that concerned with the sidereal researches of the last...century. Thirty-five years earlier, in 1855, Elias...the course of a single year. Wells was convinced...
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newspaper articles on: Sidereal Year  - 9 results

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Genius at Work; 200 Years after the Death of Industrialist Matthew Boulton, Chris Upton Looks at How the City Is Marking His Anniversary
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 31, 2009
Subjects: Boulton, Matthew
Genius at Work; 200 Years after the Death of Industrialist...already know that this year marks the bicentenary...Pump", John Russells A sidereal clock his partner astonishingly...Watt. You wait several years for a Matthew Boulton...Soho House in the past year or so will have seen...Boultons Soho factory A sidereal clock by Boulton and...
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Flight of the Aliens? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 5, 2009
Subjects: Ryan, Leo J.
...in the earlier answer. A sidereal (stellar) day is about 23...revolution about every 26,000 years. So, the sidereal day is 0.008 seconds shorter...revolves around the Sun once a year), but the directions from...the Sun once a year, the sidereal time at any one place at midnight...
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Astronomers Rely on Transit Telescope to Measure Earth's Rotation
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 21, 2007
Subjects: Astronomy
...motion about 4.5 billion years ago during the formation of...Astronomers call that one rotation a sidereal day. "The Earth spins once...minutes to each day. In a years time, the extra minutes make...spins 366 times during each year, but the motion of the Earth...The fastest is Jupiter. A sidereal day on Jupiter is 9 hours and...
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MANDY'S [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; September 30, 2009
Subjects: Clocks and watches, Watches, Wrist watches
...Sterling21,500 WATCH; It Takes a Year to Make and Drips with Gold...watch that takes more than a year to build and which is powered...needs to be adjusted once a year -- at the end of 28-day...require adjustment during leap years. But Sarkozy and Mandelson...an extra two hands also show sidereal time, which as the people...
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MANDY'S [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; September 30, 2009
Subjects: Clocks and watches, Watches, Wrist watches
...Sterling21,500 WATCH; It Takes a Year to Make and Drips with 18ct...watch that takes more than a year to build and which is powered...needs to be adjusted once a year -- at the end of 28-day...require adjustment during leap years. But Sarkozy and Mandelson...an extra two hands also show sidereal time, which as the people...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sidereal Year  - 11 results

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Sidereal Year
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIDEREAL YEAR time required for the earth to complete...of the sun relative to the stars. The sidereal year is 365 days, 6 hr, 9 min, 9...the equinoxes ; for this reason, the sidereal year does not stay in step with the seasons...
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Sidereal Time
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the fixed stars; thus, the sidereal day is the period during which...its orbit about the sun, the sidereal day is about 4 min shorter than...visible at different times of the year. The local sidereal time of an observer is equal...
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Year
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YEAR time required for the earth to complete one orbit about the sun. The solar or tropical year is measured relative to the sun and is equal...mean solar time (see solar time ). The sidereal year , measured relative to the stars, is longer...
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Anomalistic Year
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANOMALISTIC YEAR nom lis tik, time required for the earth to go from the perihelion...sec of mean solar time (see solar time ). The anomalistic year is longer than the sidereal year and the tropical year because of the eastward motion of the...
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Light-Year
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LIGHT-YEAR in astronomy, unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one sidereal year . It is 9.461 O 10 12 km (about 6 million...our solar system, are about 4.3 light-years distant. See also parsec...
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