Cosmic year

Cosmic year

The term "cosmic year" may refer to:


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  • cosmic year — noun : the estimated time required for a star at the sun s distance from the center of the Milky Way galaxy to make one trip around it in a circular orbit, about 200 million years * * * cosmic year, the time it takes the sun to complete one… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Cosmic year (astronomy) — can refer to:*Cosmic Calendar a theorized scale of the life of the universe. *Galactic year the estimated time it takes the Sun to orbit around the Milky Way galaxy …   Wikipedia

  • Cosmic year (Chinese astrology) — According to Jeung San Do, the universe generates and cultivates life through a cyclic process of birth, growth, harvest, and rest (生長殮藏). This is closely related to the fluctuation and interplay of the two polar energies, yin and yang and its… …   Wikipedia

  • cosmic year — amount of time required for the sun to make one revolution around the galaxy (approximately 225 million years) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • year — /year/, n. 1. a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year). Cf. common year, leap year. 2. a period of approximately the …   Universalium

  • Cosmic Calendar — The Cosmic Calendar is a scale in which the 13.7 billion year lifetime of the universe is mapped onto a single year. At this scale the Big Bang took place on January 1 at midnight, and the current time is mapped to December 31 at midnight.[1] At… …   Wikipedia

  • Cosmic microwave background experiments — [ Cosmic background (CMB) temperature on the celestial sphere as determined with the COBE satellite, (top) uncorrected, (middle) corrected for the dipole term due to our peculiar velocity, (bottom) corrected for contributions from the dipole term …   Wikipedia

  • Cosmic Disco — Cosmic discocitation journal=Stylus Magazine url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/beatz by the pound/31 2006 best of.htm title=Beatz By The Pound #31: 2006 Best Of… last=Gill|first=Michael date=December 22, 2006 accessdate=2008 04 21… …   Wikipedia

  • Cosmic Puffin Festival — Cosmic Puffin Music Festival Date(s) Easter (Annually) Location(s) Mersea Island Youth Camp, Colchester, UK Years active 2 …   Wikipedia

  • Cosmic Background Explorer — (COBE) General information NSSDC ID 1989 089A Organization NASA …   Wikipedia

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