The Year

Nomenclature

What should the annual cycle be called?

General

Annus

The term is Latin for "year."

Pro

Latin is the basic language for Martian geographic nomenclature.

Con

Areoyear

The term is derived from "Ares" and "year".

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Con

Cycle

The term comes from the television series Farscape.

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Con

Lowell

The term is named for Percival Lowell, Director of the Lowell Observatory, who described a simple method for dividing the Martian year in (Mars, 1895.

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Con

Martian year

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Con

This term might be truncated to "year" in commom usage, resulting in confusing a Martian year with an Earth year, which are different units of time.

Masthar

This term was coined by H. Beam Piper in "Omnilingual," 1957.

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Con

Mear

The term is an acronym, taken from Martian yEAR. The term was coined by Robert L. Forward in Martian Rainbow, 1991.

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Con

Mir

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Con

MYear

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Con

This term might be truncated to "year" in commom usage, resulting in confusing a Martian year with an Earth year, which are different units of time.

Orb

The term is a contraction of "orbit".

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Con

Orbit

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Con

Ord

The term was coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs, but did not appear in any of his tales of Barsoom.

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Con

Versary

The term is a contraction of "anniversary".

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Con

Yar

The term is an acronym, taken from Year AReological.

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Con

Year

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Con

The term does not explicitly distinguish between an Earth year and a Martian year, which are different units of time.

How should the enumerated year be signified?

General

After Occupation (A.O.)

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Con

Anno Martis (A.M.)

Pro

Latin is the basic language for Martian geographic nomenclature.

Con

Martian Era (M.E.)

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Con

Martian Year (M.Y.)

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Con