sidereal month in a sentence

Examples

1. An anomalistic month is longer than a sidereal month because the perigee moves in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth, one revolution in nine years.
2. The four-inch rises, Williams said in an interview, occur in 27-day cycles _ the time it takes the Moon to make one full orbit of Earth, known as the sidereal month.
3. A draconic month is shorter than a sidereal month because the nodes move in the opposite direction to that in which the Moon is orbiting the Earth, one revolution in 18.6 years.
4. The number of nakshatras reflects the number of days in a sidereal month ( modern value : 27.32 days ), the width of a nakshatra traversed by the Moon in about one day.
5. This apsidal precession completes one rotation in the same time as the number of sidereal months exceeds the number of anomalistic months by exactly one, after about 3233 days ( 8.85 years ).
6. This is the reason that a draconic month or nodal period ( the period of time that the Moon takes to return to the same node in its orbit ) is shorter than the sidereal month.
7. :Do you mean sidereal month ( not " exactly " 28 days ), or are you looking for a more colloquial term, like fortnight is used for 14 days ?-- TALK ) 14 : 20, 5 September 2010 ( UTC)
8. The Muisca, like the Incas, also took notice of the difference between the sidereal month ( 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes ); the time it takes for the Moon to reach the same position with respect to the stars.
9. The zodiac month consists of 27 days, approximating the mean sidereal month of 27.321661 days . Thus each zodiac day, called " nekkhat ", represents a lunar mansion, or a segment of the ecliptic along which the moon revolves around the earth.
10. This, and the fact that there are about thirteen sidereal months in a tropical year, suggest that the Moon's heliocentric orbit should resemble a rounded triskaidecagon  although, as stated above, the figure isn't quite closed and will form a spirograph-like pattern over several years.