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Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...
Comet
A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion A comet commonly consists of three parts the nucleus the envelope or coma and the tail but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting See Illustration in Appendix...
Copernican
Pertaining to Copernicus a Prussian by birth b 1473 d 1543 who taught the world the solar system now received called the Copernican system...
Coronium
The principal gaseous substance forming the solar corona characterized by a green line in the coronal spectrum...
Eclipse
An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun moon or other luminous body by the intervention of some other body either between it and the eye or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earths shadow a solar eclipse by the moon coming between the sun and the observer A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet though of the nature of an eclipse is called an occultation The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet...
VerbarFeroher
A symbol of the solar deity found on monuments exhumed in Babylon Nineveh etc...
Fraunhofer lines
The lines of the spectrum especially and properly the dark lines of the solar spectrum so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer a German physicist...
Green
Having the color of grass when fresh and growing resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue verdant emerald...
ionosphere
the outer region of the earths atmosphere beyond which is the exosphere it contains a high concentration of free electrons and ions and extends from about 50 miles to about 250 miles above the earths surface but the height shows daily and seasonal variation and the composition of the particles in the ionosphere is also affected by events such as solar flares...
magnetosphere
the magnetic field of a planet the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planets magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field...
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