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Study the different ways of defining a year - a tropical year, a sidereal year, and the anomalistic year
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  • calendar of Gregory XIII from January to June
    In year

    …year is shorter than the sidereal year (365 days 6 hours 9 minutes 10 seconds), which is the time taken by the Sun to return to the same place in its annual apparent journey against the background of the stars. The anomalistic year (365 days 6 hours 13 minutes 53…

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