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In astronomy, a Julian year (symbol: a or a j) is a unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86 400 SI seconds each. The length of the Julian year is the average length of the year in the Julian calendar that was used in Western societies until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar, and from which the unit is named ...
History. Caesar's Comet was known to ancient writers as the Sidus Iulium ("Julian Star") or Caesaris astrum ("Star of Julius Caesar").
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- 1.0 (assumed)
- May 18, 44 BC (earliest mention)
- 0.22 AU
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Julian period, chronological system now used chiefly by astronomers and based on the consecutive numbering of days from Jan. 1, 4713 bc. Not to be confused with the Julian calendar, the Julian period was proposed by the scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger in 1583 and named by him for his father, Julius.
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Caesar's calendar became the predominant calendar in the Roman Empire and subsequently most of the Western world for more than 1,600 years, until 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII promulgated a revised calendar. The Julian calendar has two types of years: a normal year of 365 days and a leap year of 366 days.
Julian Date -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy. The number of days since noon on January 1, -4712, i.e., January 1, 4713 BC (Seidelmann 1992). It was proposed by J. J. Scaliger in 1583, so the name for this system derived from Julius Scaliger, not Julius Caesar. Scaliger defined Day One was as a day when three calendrical cycles converged.
The Julian calender has now been superceded by the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. The Gregorian calender restricted the number of years that were actually leap years: only century years (e.g. 1600, 1700, 1800) that were divisible by 400 were considered leap years.
