1) Conferred about 2) Greek astronomer, 432 BC
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[crater] Meton is a compound formation on the Moon that consists of several merged crater rings that have been flooded with lava, forming the remnant of a walled plain in the shape of a clover leaf. It is located near the northern lunar lumb, and is viewed from a low angle and foreshortened. The crater Barrow is attached to the southwest ri...
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(from the article `Metonic cycle`) ...a period of 19 years in which there are 235 lunations, or synodic months, after which the Moon`s phases recur on the same days of the solar year, ... ...of all the early attempts to provide some commensurability between a religious lunar calendar and the tropical year was the Metonic cycle. This ......
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