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solar day

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time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

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two days later they left Source: Internet

they put on two performances every day Source: Internet

there are 30,000 passengers per day Source: Internet

Ancient Sinhalese in Sri Lanka divided a solar day into 60 peya (now called Sinhala peya). Source: Internet

An important one is the solar day, defined as the time it takes for the Sun to return to its culmination point (its highest point in the sky). Source: Internet

Because celestial orbits are not perfectly circular, and thus objects travel at different speeds at various positions in their orbit, a solar day is not the same length of time throughout the orbital year. Source: Internet

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