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How many earth Years is one Saturn Year?
The length of one sidereal Earth year is 3.39% the length of one sidereal Saturn year. In other words, the length of one sidereal Saturn year is 29.5 times the length of one sidereal Earth year. (A sidereal year is the time between alignments of the sun, the planet, and a distant fixed star.)
What takes longer one year in venus or mercuty?
If you define a "year" for a planet as the length of time for it to make one revolution around the sun (the sidereal period) the "years" for the two planets are: Mercury 0.241 earth year (88.0 days) Venus 0.615 earth year (225 days) ... so Venus has a longer "year" than Mercury.
Ted is exactly 28 years old He wants to determine his age in lunar yearsWrite the steps Ted should follow to determine his lunar age What is Ted's lunar age in years?
24 years times 365.24 days in a year / 29.53 days in a lunar synodic month = 296.84 lunar synodic months. Sorry, I don't know how many lunar synodic months there are in a lunar year. Someone else please finish the answer.
What would cause the solar day to be shorter than the sidereal day?
The sidereal day of a planet is the time it takes to rotate once on it's axis. The solar day is the time from sunrise to sunset. To see why they are different, let's image a planet that rotates very slowly. Every time it goes around its star once, it also rotates once on its axis. Since it rotates once on its axis per year, there is one sidereal day per year. Now, in order for this to work, one side of the planet must be facing the star at all times. This means that there is no sunrise or sunset, so on this planet, there are zero solar days in a year. Now let's image a planet that rotates twice a year (has two sidereal days a year). At the beginning of the year, a side of that planet is facing the star. Halfway through that year, the planet has rotates once, but is on the other side of the star, so that side of the planet is now facing away from the star. At the end of the year, the planet is back where it started. There has been one sunrise and one sunset, so only one solar day. From this we can see that a planet (as long as it has at least one sidereal day per year) has one more sidereal day per year than solar day per year. There are 365.242 solar days in an Earth year, but there are 366.242 sidereal days in an Earth year.
What planet has the second shortest day?
Mercury has the 2nd longest "sidereal day" with a sidereal rotation period of 58.646 Earth days. The longest "sidereal day" day is Venus, with a sidereal rotation period of 243.018 Earth daysIf you use the "solar day" as your definition of "day", the order is reversed. Mercury then has the longest day and Venus has the second longest day.
How many more sidereal months than synodic months are there a year?
1 more sidereal month than synodic month
What's the difference between a sidereal year and a synodic year?
A sidereal year is measured based on the planet's position in space relative to the background stars. A synodic year is measured based on the planet's position relative to the star it rotates around (i.e. the sun) Here's an image that is pretty helpful in visualizing.
Why stars seem to move faster than planets in the sky as viewed from earth?
It's because we are going round the Sun and so are all the planets. For that reason the time it takes for a planet to go round the ecliptic and arrive back at the same apparent position - called its synodic period - is longer than a year. Venus and Mars have the longest synodic period because their times to go round once are the closest to 365 days. They take 225 and 687 days to go round but the synodic periods are 584 and 780 days. On the other hand the far-out planets do not move much in a year. Neptune takes 165 years to go round so its synodic period is only a little over 365 days and is 367½ days.
What planets days are longer than your year?
Venus "sidereal day" is longer than its year. Mercury's "solar day" is longer than its year. However, there is no planet in our solar system with a day longer than our year on Earth.
How long is a day and a year on the planet?
A planets day (solar day) is the time it takes to rotate once on its axis relative to the sun, the synodic period. A year on a planet is the time taken for the planet travel once around the sun.
What day is earth celebrated on?
April. If you want to be specific, April 22.
How many earth Years is one Saturn Year?
The length of one sidereal Earth year is 3.39% the length of one sidereal Saturn year. In other words, the length of one sidereal Saturn year is 29.5 times the length of one sidereal Earth year. (A sidereal year is the time between alignments of the sun, the planet, and a distant fixed star.)
How is a year different on each planet?
cuz the the planets are different distances away from the sun and its times are way different
What is the revolution of a planet?
If you are talking about bodies in the solar system, then revolution almost always refers to the orbiting motion of a body around another body. This is the motion that gives us the year on earth. The earth revolves around the sun once in about 365.25 days. Revolution can be a little more complex than this. A sidereal revolution is the orbit of a body as it is observed from the distant stars. Synodic revolution is a revolution as it is observed from the body being orbited, and it brings the orbiting body back to its starting point relative to the sun. These two orbital periods are not the same length. The phases of the moon follow the synodic period; the synodic period is longer than the sidereal period by roughly a day or two.
Which planets day is half as long as its year?
Venus or Mercury, depending on the definition of "day" used. It takes Venus 243 Earth days to spin on its axis relative to the background stars (a "sidereal day"). It takes Venus 224.7 Earth days to orbit the Sun (its year). However, a "solar day" is only 116.75 Earth days long due to the combination of rotation time, orbit time and spin direction. (Venus spins in the other direction to Earth and most other planets.)Mercury has a "sidereal day" of about 58.6 Earth days and a year of about 88 Earth days.
Are day's year's and season's the same on all planets?
No, they are real different from Earth.
What is Mars period?
The length of a Martian day is equal to 1.027491204 Earth days. The length of one sidereal Martian year is equal to 1.880791 sidereal Earth years.
