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SYNODIC PERIOD

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 295 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SYNODIC

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PERIOD  , in
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astronomy, the apparent
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period of a
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planet or
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satellite when its revolution is referred to the
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line passing through the
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earth or the
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sun . In the
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case of the
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planets it is the period between successive conjunctions of the same
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kind, inferior or
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superior, with the sun . In the case of the satellites it is the period relative to the
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radius vector from the sun .

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