- Look up
lunar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lunar most
commonly means "of or
relating to the Moon".
Lunar may also
refer to:
Lunar (series), a series...
- A
lunar eclipse is an
astronomical event that
occurs when the Moon
moves into the Earth's shadow,
causing the Moon to be darkened. Such an
alignment occurs...
- same side of the Moon to
always face Earth.
Because of this, the
lunar day and the
lunar month are the same length, at 29.5
Earth days. The Moon's gravitational...
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observed purely lunar calendar is the
Islamic calendar. A
purely lunar calendar is
distinguished from a
lunisolar calendar,
whose lunar months are brought...
- A Moon
landing or
lunar landing is the
arrival of a
spacecraft on the
surface of the Moon,
including both
crewed and
robotic missions. The
first human-made...
- A
lunar phase or Moon
phase is the
apparent shape of the Moon's
directly sunlit portion as
viewed from the
Earth (because the Moon is
tidally locked with...
- will be 230
lunar eclipses in the 21st
century (2001–2100): 87 penumbral, 58
partial and 85 total.
Eclipses are
listed in sets by
lunar years, repeating...
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English as the
Muslim calendar and
Islamic calendar, is a
lunar calendar consisting of 12
lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine...
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elliptic orbit—resulting in a
slightly larger-than-usual
apparent size of the
lunar disk is
viewed from Earth. The
technical name is a
perigee syzygy (of the...
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Lunar New Year is the
beginning of a new year
based on
lunar calendars or,
informally but more widely,
lunisolar calendars.
Lunar calendars follow the...