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sidereal period

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  1. astronomy the period of revolution of a body about another with respect to one or more distant stars

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A brief abstract from a journal of the weather for one sidereal period of the moon, in 1853.

The first half of the month of April can be called the most brilliant sidereal period of the year.

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