Sentences with phrase «first lunar month»

The fire festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

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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.

The celebrations take place during the first ten days of Muharram, the first month of the Muslim lunar year.

We have had a Lunar Esclispe this month and we will soon have the first Total solar eclipse that will cover all of the USA.

On January 4, 1970, less than six months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left humanity's first lunar footprints, NASA announced Apollo 20's cancellation.

Yet in November 1969, only months after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became history's first moonwalkers, Conrad left his own tracks in the lunar dust, as commander of the Apollo 12 mission.

It's the country's first probe to venture beyond Earth orbit, allowing India to join a decade of lunar exploration that is due to begin next month with the launch of Europe's SMART 1 probe (Science, 2 May, p. 724).

Chang» e-1, launched in 2007, spent 16 months in orbit snapping the nation's first images of the lunar surface.

In lunar religious calendars, Chaitra is the first month and its first day is celebrated as the beginning of a New Year.

The first period is the time required for the syzygies of the Earth / Moon / Sun (i.e. the Lunar Synodic month) to realign with the closest lunar periLunar Synodic month) to realign with the closest lunar perilunar perigees.