sidereal year
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"In the year 1779 Lexell's comet approached so near to the earth that it would have increased the length of the sidereal year by three hours if its mass had been equal to the earth's."
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Donnelly, Ignatius
It has received the name of sidereal year.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)
Their sidereal year was 4�m too long,7 and they kept the ecliptic stationary among the stars, making no allowance for the shifting of the equinoxes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
The earth’s axis rotates about the pole of the ecliptic, making one revolution and a twenty-six thousandth part of a revolution in the sidereal year, in the opposite direction to its orbital motion.
From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George
In what way was the primitive year regulated? was it a solar or a sidereal year?
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
