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... planets : Sunday after the Sun , ravivāra ; Monday after the Moon , somavāra ; Tuesday after Mars , man- galavara ... planet Jupiter , called bṛhaspati in Sanskrit . Jupiter has a sidereal period ( its movement with respect to the ...
... planets : Sunday after the Sun , ravivāra ; Monday after the Moon , somavāra ; Tuesday after Mars , man- galavara ... planet Jupiter , called bṛhaspati in Sanskrit . Jupiter has a sidereal period ( its movement with respect to the ...
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... planet Venus around the Sun with eight 365 - day years and projects the count for 104 years , when it returns to the beginning Tzolkin date . Three sets of month positions associated with the cycle suggest its periodic correction ...
... planet Venus around the Sun with eight 365 - day years and projects the count for 104 years , when it returns to the beginning Tzolkin date . Three sets of month positions associated with the cycle suggest its periodic correction ...
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... planets solidified . Study of the decay products of nuclei with medium de- cay rates indicates that their abundance is higher than if nucleosynthesis has occurred at a constant rate throughout galactic history . This suggests that the ...
... planets solidified . Study of the decay products of nuclei with medium de- cay rates indicates that their abundance is higher than if nucleosynthesis has occurred at a constant rate throughout galactic history . This suggests that the ...
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