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  2. Lunar month - Wikipedia

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    The term lunar month usually refers to the synodic month because it is the cycle of the visible phases of the Moon. Most of the following types of lunar month, except the distinction between the sidereal and tropical months, were first recognized in Babylonian lunar astronomy .

  3. Lunar calendar - Wikipedia

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    Since each lunation is approximately 29 + 1 ⁄ 2 days, [1] it is common for the months of a lunar calendar to alternate between 29 and 30 days. Since the period of 12 such lunations, a lunar year, is 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 34 seconds (354.36707 days), [1] purely lunar calendars are 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year.

  4. Lunar day - Wikipedia

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    On average, this synodic period lasts 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 seconds, [1] the length of a lunar month on Earth. The exact length varies over time because the speed of the Earth–Moon system around the Sun varies slightly during a year due to the eccentricity of its elliptical orbit, variances in orbital velocity, and a number of ...

  5. Metonic cycle - Wikipedia

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    The Metonic cycle is the most accurate cycle of time (in a timespan of less than 100 years) for synchronizing the tropical year and the lunar month (synodic month), when the method of synchronizing is the intercalation of a thirteenth lunar month in a calendar year from time to time. [15]

  6. When is Lunar New Year and how is the holiday celebrated? All ...

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    Here's what you need to know about Lunar New Year. While many regard Jan. 1 as the start of the new year, billions celebrate it on a different day. Here's what you need to know about Lunar New Year.

  7. Month - Wikipedia

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    A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, that is approximately as long as a natural phase cycle of the Moon; the words month and Moon are cognates.The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days, making for roughly 12.37 such months in one Earth year.

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

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    And Mars may be the kicker for the overall length. With a 780-day synodic period, 21 periods match exactly to 16,380, or 20 cycles of 819. Venus needs seven periods to match five 819-day counts ...

  9. How the Lantern Festival Is Being Celebrated Around the World

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    The lantern festival falls on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese calendar and marks the first full moon of the new lunar year. ... People ventured out in the snow to enjoy lanterns on ...