| 41. | Lunar years are shorter than solar years by about 10 or 11 days per year, and this adds up over the centuries.
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| 42. | In general, there are 11 or 12 complete months and 2 incomplete months, which contains the winter solstice, in a solar year.
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| 43. | Once the Sun moves into your birth sign on Sunday a new solar year begins and anything is possible _ well, almost anything.
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| 44. | These excess days are epacts, and are added to the day of the solar year to determine the day of the lunar year.
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| 45. | So Gregory dropped 10 days and corrected the number of leap years to make the calendar correspond more closely to the solar year.
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| 46. | In 6000 BC, the December solstice solar year had a length of 50 : 35 in excess of 365 days and 5 hours.
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| 47. | It would catch up a lunar year to a solar year because twelve lunar months are 1.3906 days short of one solar year.
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| 48. | There are seven leap months in every 19 years to make the average lunar month of 29.5 days correspond to the solar year.
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| 49. | The calendar is based on the cycles of the moon and is synchronized with the solar year by adding extra months at fixed intervals.
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| 50. | This fact is important since the Festivals in the Jewish year must fall in a particular season and seasons depend on the solar year.
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