Sentences with phrase «lunar month of»

Chinese New Year celebrations, also known as the Spring Festival, in China start on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month of the Chinese calendar.

During the lunar month of Magh, spanning January and February, a vast tented city comes into being.

Not exact matches

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.

One in six of these blood moon tetrads always falls on Jewish feast days because, like them, Passover and Tabernacles always occur at full moon and are six lunar months apart.

The lunar calendar, based on a much shorter month, does not coincide with the seasons, and is thus more suited to an urban lifestyle of purchase, profit and power.

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.

The Muslim year is a lunar year divided into twelve months with the odd months having thirty days and the even having twenty - nine, with 354 days most years, but 355 days eleven years in each cycle of thirty.

Because most Muslims follow the hijri or Islamic lunar count of the days, its months begin about eleven days earlier each year.

The current Jewish calendar, counting solar years made up of lunar months from a supposed date for the creation, reckons that the year 5761 began on Rosh Hashanah (September 11 - 12).

It's a Blue Moon, which means that it's the second full moon of the month, but it's also a Supermoon and there will be a Total Lunar Eclipse on that same day.

Since when do any of us operate on the lunar month (aka — a 4 week month) except in February.

We are big fans of Charles Chocolate, who used to call their monthly club the PMS assortment, while Vosges (inventors of the bacon chocolate bar) call theirs the Lunar chocolate (truffle) of the month club.

It had two large dials: One showed a Greek lunar month calendar while the other showed the biennial and quadrennial cycles of athletic competitions, including the Olympics.

The structure may be the result of an impact that blasted material off Himalia, suggest Cheng and colleagues in a study presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, earlier this month.

If the base were built at the lunar equator, it would be in darkness for half of every month.

Last month the government banned four scientists — including former ISRO head G. Madhavan Nair, who oversaw India's successful Chandrayaan - 1 lunar probe in 2008 — from holding a government position for the rest of their lives.

Just a few months into its mission, NASA's newest Mars orbiter is finding an assortment of oddities in the Martian atmosphere, researchers report March 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

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.

This month also marks the close of the twenty - fifth - anniversary year of the Apollo lunar landing.

As planetary scientist Shane Byrne of the University of Arizona (UA), Tucson, and his colleagues reported last month at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, MRO's broad - scale Context Camera has been finding the dark smudges of impact debris that weren't there as recently as a month earlier.

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).

Another gear fragment exhibits markings consistent with a four - turn spiral divided into 223 segments, the same number of lunar months that can elapse between eclipses.

The so - called Metonic cycle is based on the near equivalence of 235 lunar months to 19 solar years.

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

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.

Stryk's work will be published in the proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, which will take place in The Woodlands, Texas next month.

WHY: To measure the density and composition of lunar dust and see how it varies from month to month WHEN: May 1, 2012

The polar regions are where we can find frozen H2O and frozen volatile gases, solar power 24/7 for 80 % or more of a Lunar month, moderate non-crater surface temperatures that usually stay close to around a -55 degrees Centigrade, and a whole lot more.

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.

«Yet to this day, it remains remarkable that the troubles afflicting the most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status — and a key hinge in getting Americans to the Moon — were ironed - out within a matter of months, allowing the Saturn V to triumphantly deliver Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders to lunar orbit in December 1968.»

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

This is the second installment of game - changing eclipses to fall in the same month; the Aquarius lunar (full moon) eclipse rocked the skies on August 7.

Usually we celebrate Chinese New Year in the month of February, but the dates changes every year in the lunar calendar.

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To my surprise and delight, I discovered that, depending on the lunar calendar, there can be festivities every month of the year.

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

Read about some of the highlights we have planned for the month, including a multi-service Spay Day and adoption event on February 19, in partnership with the ASPCA and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), exciting activities around the television premiere of Doggie Moms on NYC life (Channel 25) on February 16, and house rabbits for adoption from Rabbit Rescue & Rehab appearing in the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade on February 6.

Loi Krathong (or Loy Krathong / Loy Kratong) is a festival in Thailand that takes place on the full moon night of the twelfth lunar month, where thousands of little, candlelit floats are let go onto rivers and other waterways as offerings to the river spirits.

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.

Holi is a spring festival celebrated according to lunar calendar in the month of Fagu i.e late February or early March.

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

I Gusti Jelantik managed to kill the King of Nusa Penida in a duel with the powerful dagger, but before he died the King of Nusa Penida cursed that he and his demon army will invade the island of Bali annually on the sixth month of Caka lunar calendar.

I Gusti Jelantik managed to kill the King of Nusa penida in a duel with the powerful dagger, but before he died the King of Nusa Penida said that he and his army will invade the island of Bali annually on the sixth month of Caka lunar calendar.

Abama Golf & Spa Resort, Tenerife, launches a dining service with a difference this month allowing guests to savour the hotel's Michelin treats in the lunar - like landscapes of the Teide National Park.