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On Tuesday, April 11, the Sun and Jupiter form an exact alignment, which is an annual occurrence that marks the beginning of Jupiter’s synodic cycle.
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Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2023
This astrological event is inspiring self-love and new heights of awareness
Love planet Venus will form an exact conjunction with the sun on June 4, marking the end of one synodic cycle and the beginning of another.
—Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
This prograde-to-retrograde cycle is known as a synodic period, and Mercury takes roughly 115 days to complete it.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
Researchers have long believed this calendar was associated with planetary movements, especially the synodic periods—when a planet appears visually to return to the same location in the sky, as seen from Earth—of key planets.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
With a 780-day synodic period, 21 periods match exactly to 16,380, or 20 cycles of 819.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
Mercury was always the starting point for the tricky timeline because its synodic period—117 days—matches nicely into 819.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
These rotations are called the synodic cycles of the planets—their cycles relative to the sun.
—Tony Freeth, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
This writing is a formulaic list of the synodic events of each planet (such as its conjunctions with the sun and its stationary points) and the intervals in days between them.
—Tony Freeth, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
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Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2023
This astrological event is inspiring self-love and new heights of awareness
Love planet Venus will form an exact conjunction with the sun on June 4, marking the end of one synodic cycle and the beginning of another.
—Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
This prograde-to-retrograde cycle is known as a synodic period, and Mercury takes roughly 115 days to complete it.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
Researchers have long believed this calendar was associated with planetary movements, especially the synodic periods—when a planet appears visually to return to the same location in the sky, as seen from Earth—of key planets.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
With a 780-day synodic period, 21 periods match exactly to 16,380, or 20 cycles of 819.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
Mercury was always the starting point for the tricky timeline because its synodic period—117 days—matches nicely into 819.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
These rotations are called the synodic cycles of the planets—their cycles relative to the sun.
—Tony Freeth, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
This writing is a formulaic list of the synodic events of each planet (such as its conjunctions with the sun and its stationary points) and the intervals in days between them.
—Tony Freeth, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
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“Synodic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synodic. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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