Sentences with phrase «by lunar months»

Not exact matches

It was also well below the 44 % surge seen in the 12 months to February, a result that was undoubtedly impacted by Lunar New Year distortions.

Trade data for the same month revealed the country incurred its first trade deficit in local - currency terms since early 2014, mainly due to a surge in imports, although the figures were probably affected by the timing of the Lunar New Year holiday.

However, this year we are witnesses to something less common, a lunar tetrad: ie a group of four lunar eclipses that are always separated by six - month intervals.

The crude lunar map he sketched from his observations dates him as the earliest person known to have used a telescope to study a celestial object, beating Galileo Galilei by nearly four months.

Sponsored by the two organizations, the HDTV - equipped spacecraft Kaguya entered lunar orbit last month and went on to shoot a combined eight minutes of crisp video (available here) from a distance of around 60 miles (100 kilometers), offering a panoramic view of the moon's northern topography.

It is found that the El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is driven not only by the seasonal heating, but also by three more external periodicities (incommensurate to the annual period) associated with the ~ 18.6 - year lunar - solar nutation of the Earth rotation axis, ~ 11 - year sunspot activity cycle and the ~ 14 - month Chandler wobble in the Earth's pole motion.

The «Lunar» municipal cycle: By par value, 41.7 % of the par value of debt matures in the months of June, July and August.

Loi Krathong / Yi Peng — The full moon of the 12th lunar month — For three days surrounding the full moon, Thailand celebrates the end of the rainy season by thanking the spirits of the river during Loi Krathong.

(FYI, in Japan sets of objects come in fives, which makes a whole lot more base ten sense, when you come to think of it, than our duodecimal dozen, even though the latter is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, and pretty much maps onto the lunar months and... Onward.