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  2. Tropical year - Wikipedia

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    The tropical year is one type of ... the tropical year over long periods of time is the ... leap day in 3200, keep 3600 and 4000 as leap years, ...

  3. Atlantic hurricane season - Wikipedia

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    One of only three seasons to feature a major hurricane in June. 1967: 15 6 1 125.43 64 $217M 5 Beulah 5 Beulah First hurricane season in the modern satellite era. Features the highest number of tropical depressions in a season at the time. One of five seasons to have a category 5 as the sole major hurricane of the season. 1968: 8 5 0 46.60 10 $10M

  4. Hipparchic cycle - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, from the values of the tropical year (365.2421896698 days) and the synodic month (29.530588853) cited in the respective articles of Wikipedia, it follows that the length of 228=12×19 tropical years is about 83,275.22 days, shorter than the length of 12×235 synodic months—namely about 83,276.26 days—by one day plus about one hour.

  5. 2024 is a leap year. Here's what that means — and why we ...

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    The Julian calendar ended up being 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than the tropical year — the time it takes for seasons to repeat. In the late 16th century, Pope Gregory XIII improved the ...

  6. Tropics - Wikipedia

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    The northern one is called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern is the Tropic of Capricorn. As the Earth's axial tilt changes, [a] so too do the tropical and polar circles. The tropics constitute 39.8% of Earth's surface area [1] and contain 36% of Earth's landmass. [2]

  7. Daytime - Wikipedia

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    The sun enters and leaves each zodiacal constellation slightly later each year at the rate of about 1 day every 72 years. For more information, see precession of the equinoxes. On the Tropical Circles, the Sun is directly overhead only once per year, on the corresponding solstice.

  8. Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan ...

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    The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded ... The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. ... the one that baffled scholars the most was ...

  9. Florida on long-range alert for upcoming Gulf tropical threat

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    Tropical Depression 11-E formed in the eastern Pacific, just off the coast of Mexico, Tuesday afternoon. It is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall in Mexico Wednesday afternoon.