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The sidereal month may be defined as
Answer: B
A sidereal month is the time the Moon takes to complete one orbit of the Earth measured against a fixed star - about 27.3 days.
The synodic month, from one new moon to the next, is longer at about 29.5 days, because in the meantime the Earth has moved along its own orbit and the Moon must travel further to return to the same alignment with the Sun.
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