sidereal year

English

Noun

sidereal year (plural sidereal years)

1. The orbital period of the Earth with respect to the fixed stars.
2. The time it takes for any astronomical object in orbit around a central star to orbit that star, with respect to distant stars.

Translations

orbital period

• Danish: siderisk år
• Dutch: siderisch jaar n
• Finnish: sideerinen vuosi
• French: année sidérale (fr) f
• German: siderisches Jahr n
• Romanian: an sideral (ro) m
• Russian: сидерический год m (sideričeskij god), звёздный год m (zvjózdnyj god)
• Ukrainian: сидеричний рік m (syderyčnyj rik)

See also

• mean solar day
• tropical year
• solar year

Further reading

• sidereal year on Wikipedia.Wikipedia