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Enter the Equinox

  • September 22, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Today is the fall or autumnal equinox, which marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. The word equinox means “equal night,” and because the sun shines directly on the equator today, we get roughly 12 hours each of daylight and darkness.

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