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Year/Related Articles
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
< Year
- See also changes and topics related to Year, or pages that link to Year or to this page or whose text contains "Year".
Parent topics
- Astronomy [r]: The study of objects and processes in the observable universe, e.g. stars, planets, comets or asteroids. [e]
- Planet [r]: A cosmic body orbiting a star. [e]
- Earth [r]: The third planet from the Sun in our solar system; the only place in the universe known by humanity to harbor life. [e]
- Calendar [r]: A method used for keeping time on a scale of years. [e]
Subtopics
- Month [r]: Unit of time originally corresponding approximately to one cycle of the moon's phases, or about 30 days or 4 weeks. [e]
- Week [r]: Time unit equal to a number of days, now usually seven calendar days, previously weeks of between 4 and 20 days have been used historically in various places. [e]
- Day [r]: Defined as 86,400 seconds, using the SI definition of second. [e]
- Equinox [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aphelion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Perihelion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leap year [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Light day [r]: Distance that light travels in a vacuum in one day; 1 light day = 25,902,068,371,200 m = 2.5902067 * 1013m. [e]
- Light hour [r]: Distance that the light travels in vacuum in one hour, 1.0792528 * 1012m [e]
- Light minute [r]: Distance that light travels in vacuum in one minute; 17,987,547,480 m = 1.7987547 * 1010m. [e]
- Light second [r]: Distance that light travels in vacuum in one second; 2.99792458 * 108m. [e]
- Light week [r]: Distance that light travels in a vacuum in one week; 1 light week = 1.81314469 * 1011km. [e]
- Light year [r]: Distance that light travels in vacuum in one year; 9,460,730,472,580.800 km = 9.4607304 * 1012 km. [e]
- Mathematics [r]: The study of quantities, structures, their relations, and changes thereof. [e]
- Perennial plant [r]: A plant that lives for more than two years. [e]
- Sundial [r]: An instrument for measuring time, using the position of the sun in the sky. [e]
