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The synodic period is the time it takes for a celestial body in the solar system to complete a return to an appearance it started from, as it is seen from an observer such as the Earth and is affected by a third body such as the Sun.
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Synodic period of Venus583.93 301 periods = 676 tzolk'ins ( 260 x 676 = 175,760 days) ...
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synodic period - (n.) The orbital or rotational period of an object as seen by an observer on the earth. For the moon or a planet, the synodic period is the interval between repetitions of the same phase or configuration.
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Synodic period. The time it takes for a planet until it returns to the same position relative to the Earth. Thermo dynamics The branch of physical science dealing with conversion of energy from one form to another, especially involving heat.
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Metonic cycle see synodic period. midnight sun phenomenon in which the sun remains visible in the sky continuously for 24 hr or longer, occurring only in the polar regions. The midnight sun is due to the fact that the plane of the earth's...
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However, the five bright planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter, which also have a generally eastward motion against the background of the stars-move westward, or retrograde, for varying durations during each synodic period.
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These good positionings happen once every 780 days (the synodic period of Mars). The spacecraft must be launched within a time interval called the ``launch window'' that is just few of weeks long to use a Hohmann orbit for the spacecraft's path.
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42 hours (half of the Moon's synodic period of rotation), which is considerably less than the natural period of the oceans, complex resonance phenomena take place.
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See also: Period, Earth, Orbit, Sun, Solar

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