Eclipse Year
A eclipse year is the time between node passages. In 1994 it was 346.620073 days, and in 1995-1998, it was 346.620074 days, and in 1999-2000, it was 346.620075 days.
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eclipse year -- the length of time it takes for a lunar node to return to its original alignment with respect to the Sun (about 346.6 days).
Eclipse Year
The interval of time (346.62 days) between two successive passages of the Sun through the same node of the Moon's orbit.
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Eclipse Year
The 346.62 days it takes the sun to return to a node
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eclipse year: The time the sun takes to circle the sky and return to a node of the moon's orbit; 346.62 days.
eclipsing binary system: A binary star system in which the stars eclipse each other.
Eclipse Year - The interval of time (346.6 days) from one passage of the Sun through a node of the Moon's orbit to the next passage through the same node ...
eclipse year (NASA SP-7, 1965) The interval between two successive conjunctions of the sun with the same node of the moon's orbit, averaging 346 days 14 hours 52 minutes 52.42 seconds in 1962, and increasing at the rate of 0.
Since it is almost equal to 20 eclipse years, 6932.4 days, it is possible for a series of four or five eclipses to occur on the same dates 19 years apart.
A Dictionary of Astronomy entry for eclipse year
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology entry for eclipse ...
An eclipse in which the Earth passes through the shadow cast by the Moon. It may be total (observer in the Moon's umbra), partial (observer in the Moon's penumbra), or annular. (see Eclipse, Annular.) [S92]
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 See also: Year, Eclipse, Node, Earth, Solar
  
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