Example sentences of "[art] sidereal [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sidereal axial period and the axial inclination were also established by radar , and the earliest values are close to the presently accepted best values ( Table 1.3 ) of -243.01 days and 177.8° respectively . |
| 2 | Previously , on the basis of very sparse data , estimates of the sidereal axial period ranged from +15 days to +224.701 days , the upper limit equalling the sidereal orbital period . |
| 3 | If the sidereal axial period of Venus were -43.16 days then , except for the slight effect of the eccentricity of the orbits of Venus and the Earth , Venus would present the same face to the Earth at each inferior conjunction . |
| 4 | This is the orbit in which the less massive body m would have a sidereal orbital period equal to the sidereal axial period of M , as illustrated in Figure 6.2 ( c ) and ( d ) . |
| 5 | The axial rotation rate of the Earth is directly observed to be slowing down , such that the sidereal axial period is lengthening by about 1.5 × 10 -5 second per year . |
| 6 | This was sufficiently close to the sidereal orbital period of 87.97 days for it to be generally concluded that Mercury was in synchronous rotation around the Sun , and therefore that the sidereal axial period was also 87.97 days . |
| 7 | Previously , on the basis of very sparse data , estimates of the sidereal axial period ranged from +15 days to +224.701 days , the upper limit equalling the sidereal orbital period . |
| 8 | This was sufficiently close to the sidereal orbital period of 87.97 days for it to be generally concluded that Mercury was in synchronous rotation around the Sun , and therefore that the sidereal axial period was also 87.97 days . |
| 9 | This is the orbit in which the less massive body m would have a sidereal orbital period equal to the sidereal axial period of M , as illustrated in Figure 6.2 ( c ) and ( d ) . |
| 10 | Imagine a planet with a small axial inclination which has a retrograde sidereal orbital period of 100 days , and a sidereal axial period of -100 days . |
| 11 | Note that the sheet and the fields in the upper inset of Figure 9.2 correspond to one-half of a sidereal axial period of Jupiter different from the situation in the main body of the Figure . |