Word of the Week
S01 E03: Equinox
Season 1 Episode 3 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Educate and amaze your friends once a year with this astronomical term.
The world keeps spinning and we keep finding ways to describe that celestial journey. Educate and amaze your friends once a year with this astronomical term.
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Word of the Week is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Word of the Week
S01 E03: Equinox
Season 1 Episode 3 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The world keeps spinning and we keep finding ways to describe that celestial journey. Educate and amaze your friends once a year with this astronomical term.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(reverent orchestral music) - [Narrator] The word of the week is equinox, which is a point in time on the first day of spring and the first day of fall when the sun crosses the equator and there is an equal amount of night and day everywhere on Earth.
In the spring, it's called the Vernal Equinox.
In the fall, the autumnal equinox.
How is an equinox different from a solstice?
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