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Definition of Anomalistic month
1. Noun. Period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546 days.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anomalistic Month
Literary usage of Anomalistic month
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"... the anomalistic month, which is the period in which the moon returns to apogee
or perigee. To Hipparchus is due the credit of fixing with greater ..."
2. Ptolemy's First Commentator by Alexander Jones (1990)
"Since the moon takes longer than exactly one anomalistic month to repeat a
conjunction or opposition with the sun, this excess of time over one anomalistic ..."
3. Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus by Alexander Jones (1999)
"In each anomalistic month, therefore, the moon progresses by a constant amount
in longitude. In principle, one could use for epochs the consecutive ..."
4. Ptolemy's First Commentator by Alexander Jones (1990)
"Since the moon takes longer than exactly one anomalistic month to repeat a
conjunction or opposition with the sun, this excess of time over one anomalistic ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"The lunar day gives a periodic tidal stress of comparatively short period ; the
anomalistic month (from apogee to apogee) and the ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"On the other hand, the anomalistic month may show itself in earthquake frequency,
since the moon in perigee has a greater tidal action than when it is in ..."
7. The Moon: Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and Physical Condition by Richard Anthony Proctor (1873)
"... shorter than the mean anomalistic month. Therefore the moon, starting under
the conditions just described, will presently so move as to reach her rising ..."
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