• Timekeeping on the Moon is an issue of synchronized human activity on the Moon and contact with such. The two main differences to timekeeping on Earth...
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    The history of timekeeping devices dates back to when ancient civilizations first observed astronomical bodies as they moved across the sky. Devices and...
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    uses the same word (月) for moon as well as for month, which furthermore can be found in the symbols for the word week (星期). This lunar timekeeping gave...
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  • the free dictionary. Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of a leap day, week, or month into some calendar years to make the calendar...
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  • described as "the old moon in the new moon's arms" or "the new moon in the old moon's arms". Archaeologists have reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go...
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    other timekeeping approaches have been proposed for the planet Mars. The most commonly seen in the scientific literature denotes the time of year as the number...
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    blue moon refers either to the presence of a second full moon in a calendar month, to the third full moon in a season containing four, or to a moon that...
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    precise timekeeping, ΔT (Delta T, delta-T, deltaT, or DT) is a measure of the cumulative effect of the departure of the Earth's rotation period from the fixed-length...
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  • In Vedic timekeeping, a tithi is a "duration of two faces of moon that is observed from earth", known as milа̄lyа̄ (Newar: 𑐩𑐶𑐮𑐵𑐮𑑂𑐫𑐵𑑅, मिलाल्याः)...
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    Clock (redirect from Timekeeping device)
    Traditionally, in horology (the study of timekeeping), the term clock was used for a striking clock, while a clock that did not strike the hours audibly was called...
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    although Entwistle initially found Moon's lack of conventional timekeeping problematic, it created an original sound. Moon was particularly fond of touring...
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  • reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to prehistoric times at least as old as the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical...
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    navigation, and timekeeping, other standards such as UT1 and International Atomic Time (TAI) are also used alongside UTC. UTC is based on TAI, which is...
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    Time (redirect from Timekeeping)
    maintained timekeeping records as an essential part of their astronomical observations. Arab inventors and engineers, in particular, made improvements on the use...
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  • timekeeping based on sidereal year for solar cycle and adjustment of lunar cycles in every three years, but differ in their relative emphasis to moon...
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    Chronometry (category Timekeeping)
    Chronometry or horology (lit. 'the study of time') is the science studying the measurement of time and timekeeping. Chronometry enables the establishment of standard...
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    The two moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos. They are irregular in shape. Both were discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall in August 1877 and are...
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    designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877...
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    Watch (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    incorporate timekeeping functions, but these are only a small subset of the smartwatch's facilities. In general, modern watches often display the day, date...
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  • Aeon of Horus (redirect from The Aeon)
    and xxi is the year within that docosade. Thelemic timekeeping also considers the astrological positions of the Sun and Moon. For instance, on December...
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  • Epoch (redirect from Epoch (timekeeping))
    eclipses of the Sun and Moon Timekeeping on Mars – Proposed approaches to tracking date and time on the planet Mars Solomin, Rachel M. "Counting the Jewish...
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    Pendulum clock (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is an approximate harmonic oscillator:...
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  • calendar operates on the basis of Dolu Utsava. Hindu calendar dates are usually prescribed according to a lunisolar calendar. In Vedic timekeeping, a māsa is...
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  • include the visibility of distant objects on Earth's surface; lunar eclipses; appearance of the Moon; observation of the sky from a certain altitude; observation...
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    on 12 August 1877, at about 07:48 UTC. Hall, who also discovered Phobos shortly afterwards, had been specifically searching for Martian moons at the time...
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    to the Global Positioning System on Earth, requiring precision timekeeping. Moonlight planners have proposed creating a new time zone for the Moon for...
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  • 12 (number) (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    systems of timekeeping, including the Western calendar and units of time of day, and frequently appears in the world's major religions. Twelve is the largest...
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    timekeeping is the natural and exact "vibration" in an energized atom. The frequency of vibration (i.e., radiation) is very specific depending on the...
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    Units of time based on orders of magnitude of the second include the nanosecond and the millisecond. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical...
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    Calendar (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    useful for timekeeping, and in pre-modern societies around the world lunation and the year were most commonly used as time units. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar...
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