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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Maaaaaan, I've been holding this in for almost 3 decades and it's time to vent lol..

When I was in ~~middle-school~~ (lol) primary school we were doing a quiz on space and the Earth and I recall the question: how long is a year?

I'd remember reading in my "Magic School Bus" book that a year is closer to ~365.25 (that's where we get the extra day in the leap years) and the class and teacher mocked me for not putting 365. I'm still salty about it!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Julian = 365.25 days

Gregorian = 365.2425 so you also loose a day every century but this is cancelled every 400 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Units are weird. I just say one orbit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Sidereal, tropical or anomalistic?