Example sentences of "[art] sidereal [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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