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101Inex — The inex is an eclipse cycle of about 29 years. The cycle was first described by Crommelin in 1901, but was named by George van den Bergh who studied it half a century later.An inex is 358 lunations (synodic months) long: this is almost exactly… …
102Lunar precession — Unreferenced|date=May 2007There are two important precessional motions in the Orbit of the Moon.The long axis (line of the apsides: perigee and apogee) of the moon s elliptical orbit precesses about once in just under 9 years. It is caused by the …
103Milankovitch cycles — Past and future Milankovitch cycles. VSOP allows prediction of past and future orbital parameters with great accuracy. ε is obliquity (axial tilt). e is eccentricity. ϖ is longitude of perihelion. esin(ϖ) is the precession index, which together… …
104Equant — (or Punctum aequans ) is a mathematical concept developed by Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD to account for the observed motion of heavenly bodies.The equant point, indicated in the diagram by the • , is placed so that it is directly… …
105Pareidolia — The term pareidolia (pronEng|pæraɪˈdoʊliə) describes a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds,… …
106Electronic voice phenomenon — Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sections of static noise on the radio or electronic recording that some listeners believe sound like voices speaking words; paranormal investigators sometimes interpret these noises as the voices of ghosts or… …
107Groundhog Day gale of 1976 — Infobox winter storm|name=Groundhog Day gale of 1976 image location=19760202sfc.gif U. S. Weather Bureau. [http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/dwm/1976/19760202 19760208.djvu Daily Weather Maps: February 2 8, 1976.] Retrieved on 2006 11 28.]… …
108Nocebo — WikiWorld comic about The Nocebo Effect, based on the articles Placebo and Nocebo In medicine, a nocebo reaction or response refers to harmful, unpleasant, or undesirable effects a subject manifests after receiving an inert dummy drug or placebo …
109The Skeptic (UK magazine) — The Skeptic is a United Kingdom magazine which aims to investigate and critically examine claims of the paranormal and pseudoscience. It was founded in 1987 by Wendy M. Grossman, and subsequently edited from 1988 to 1998 by… …
110Entoptic phenomenon — This is a medical definition of entoptic phenomena. For an alternative use within archaeology please see Entoptic phenomena (archaeology) Entoptic phenomena are visual effects whose source is within the eye itself. (Occasionally, these are called …
