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Julian Day

noun

, Astronomy.
  1. a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: : J.D.

    January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0.



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