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equal day and night
It mean that each year until the Equinox your birthday has to be pushed back one day..like instead of your birthday being on the 29 it gets pushed back to the 28.
I like equinox. The Vernal Equinox is nearly upon us.
The two days are known as the Equinox. The spring Equinox (typically June 21) is known as the "Vernal Equinox". The fall Equinox (Typically September 21) is known as the "Autumnal Equinox".
Equinox happens twice a year. The Vernal equinox is also called the Spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. The 2014 Vernal equinox was on March 20, 12:57 P.M. EDT.
I'm assuming you mean Vernal equinox. It is on 21st March.
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Equinox
There is an equinox in the spring called the vernal equinox, and one in the fall called the autumnal equinox. They happen at the moment that the center of the sun is in the earth's equatorial plane. In other words, they occur at the moments when the sun passes directly over the equator.
equal day and night
aequus (equal) + nox (night)
Although equinox means equal night, it doesn't mean that the day and night exactly the same. They are close. After the autumnal equinox the days are shorter though.
It mean that each year until the Equinox your birthday has to be pushed back one day..like instead of your birthday being on the 29 it gets pushed back to the 28.
It mean that each year until the Equinox your birthday has to be pushed back one day..like instead of your birthday being on the 29 it gets pushed back to the 28.
The adjectives vernal and autumnal mean "of spring" and "of autumn (fall)" respectively. The equinox, when the day and night are even, occurs twice a year. Once in spring and once in autumn (fall) as we move from the extremes of the summer and winter solstices. Therefore we have a vernal equinox (in spring) and an autumnal equinox (in autumn/fall).
Words in common use: equinox, exchequer, exequatur, exquisite, quixotic, quincunx, squeezebox
seven Start of autumn and Autumnal equinox on the 22nd.