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...h the Earth completes one [[rotation]] with respect to the sun is called a solar day. ...patterns]] of [[humans]] and many other [[species]] are related to Earth's solar day and the cycle of day and night (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circ

...sky as the [[Sun]] – allowing the Moon to cover the Sun precisely in total solar [[eclipses]].

...e Sun to be higher in the sky during the summer months which increases the solar flux. However, due to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_lag seasonal ...e subpolar regions] generally four [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar calendar] based seasons are recognized: [[spring]] (adj. vernal), [[summer]] (adj. e

...days exclusively. (The three-month period of the shortest days and weakest solar radiation occurs during November, December, and January in the Northern Hem ...rg/wiki/Martinmas Martinmas], St. Martin's day (11 November), as the first calendar day of winter. The day falls at midpoint between the old Julian [https://en

...er in [[traditional]] East Asian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_term solar term]. ...g/wiki/Australia Australian] continent renders the rigid American seasonal calendar an imposed cultural [[concept]] rather than relevant to climactic condition

...astronomy], for example, summer starts on or around 5 May, with the jiéqì (solar term) known as lìxià (立夏), i.e. "[[establishment]] of summer", and it ...ever, according to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Calendar Irish Calendar] summer begins 1 May and ends 1 August. School textbooks in Ireland follow

...ikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar Mesoamerican Long Count calendar], which is presented as lasting 5,125 years and as terminating on December ...curring in 2012 based on any interpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is regarded as pseudoscience by the scientific community, and as misreprese

...rent usage—the present [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year leap-year] calendar of 365¼ days to the year. As a rule, no attempt will be made to give exact ...ler [[groups]] of [[matter]] in many ways resembling your own diminutive [[solar system]].

...number 60. 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour - and possibly a calendar with 360 (60x6) days in a year (with a few more days added on). ...he [[Lunar calendar]] and the [[Solar calendar]], although the [[Gregorian calendar]] is the most commonly used.

...passage of years so quickly, and you have these wonderful seasons of your solar year to celebrate those quarters of the year, particularly in the north and

...astrometry, celestial navigation, observational astronomy, the making of [[calendar]]s, and even astrolog], but professional astronomy is nowadays often consid ...ssance, [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] proposed a [[heliocentric model]] of the [[solar system]]. His work was defended, expanded upon, and corrected by [[Galileo

...r do your astrophysicists understand how deeply and intimately the sun and solar system affect your world. To blame the rise in temperatures upon human tec ...he Mayan calendar, and the prophecies about what happens at the end of the calendar on 2012?

...8 years, at the end of which the days of the week (according to the Julian Calendar) recur on the same days of the month.

...ked in the wake of Newton's theory of gravitation: if gravitation kept the solar system working, what need was there of God? This was a difficult question t ...undredth anniversary of the [[Gregorian calendar|Gregorian]] reform of the calendar, he wrote:

...your father in heaven is perfect? It is analogous to "Be brilliant as your solar son is brilliant. Shine as your nearest star can shine." It is to be as you ...Thoroah, the [[transition]] from Friday until Sunday is three days by your calendar. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It is in the literal interpretation of the 24-ho

...e power of those two stars is sufficient to light Urantia and most of your solar system out to the edge of Neptune with full sunlight as you experience on y ...ere formed by seismic explosions of the main Jupiter-like planet in an old solar system that had failed to produce life in that particular area. In the Jupi

...astronomy]], the term refers to theories of creation of (and study of) the Solar System. ...s with which he fashions the earth and the skies. Marduk then creates the calendar, organizes the planets, stars and regulates the moon, sun, and weather. Th

Since that era, and beginning sometime in the late 1940's of the present calendar used on Urantia, announced on Salvington in the Urantia calendar of March 16, 1985, the angelic services on Urantia

...is far greater than I. Feel the reality of this truth. Pull it in to your solar plexus and hold it there. Now, my friends, for the message. Dispensations ending and beginning is not like your Gregorian calendar, but rather is like an age, an era, an actuum, but there are very few proje