home / medterms medical dictionary a-z list / ethmoid sinus definition Medical Definition of Ethmoid sinus Ethmoid sinus: A collection of air cells within the ethmoid bone, a spongy bone which makes up the front of the floor of the skull and the roof of the nose. From the Greek ethmos, sieve + eidos, resemblance = like a sieve.
Confidence votes 84.8K. It takes 4.05 hours to 4.12 hours for light from the sun to reach Neptune, depending where it is in it's orbit. It takes 4.05 hours to 4.12 hours for light from the sun to reach Neptune, depending where it is in it's orbit.
With an average orbital speed of 5.43 km/s, it takes Neptune 164.8 Earth years (60,182 Earth days) to complete a single orbital period. This means, in effect, that a year on Neptune lasts as long as about 165 years here on Earth. However, given its rotational period of 0.6713 Earth days (16 hours 6 minutes 36 seconds), a year on Neptune works out to 89,666 Neptunian solar days. Given that Neptune was discovered in 1846, humanity has only known about its existence for 171 years (at the time of this articleâs writing).