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What is Mercury's period of rotation and revolution?

Mercury's period of rotation, or the time it takes to complete one full rotation on its axis, is 58.6 Earth days. Its period of revolution, or the time it takes to orbit the Sun, is about 88 Earth days. This means that one day on Mercury (rotation) is longer than one year on Mercury (revolution).


What does period of rotation mean?

Period of rotation is the time taken for an object to complete exactly one revolution around another object, like the earth rotating around the sun or the moon rotating around the earth.


What units of time are based on a single rotation or revolution of the earth?

Rotation . . . . . the "Day" Revolution . . . . the "Year"


What is the difference between a period of rotation and a period of revolution?

Let's say Michael Jordan (Is he still playing ? I never know.) Let's say Michael Jordan is walking around the arena spinning a basketball on the end of his finger. 'Rotation' is what the ball is doing on the end of his finger. The Earth's period of rotation is 1 day. 'Revolution' is what the ball is doing around the arena at the same time. The Earth's period of revolution is 1 year.


Which planet has 27 days in revolution and rotation?

That period of time doesn't describe any planet, but it does describe the earth's moon.


What is the period of a planets revolution can be used to calculate the planet?

The period of a planet's revolution is the time that it takes to complete one revolution around its axis of rotation relative to the background stars (also known as rotation period).


Revolution time of Neptune?

Neptune has an orbital period, or revolution time, of about 165 Earth years. This means it takes Neptune approximately 165 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.


How many hours and minutes is earth's rotation time?

The period of earth's rotation on its axis is 23hours56minutes4seconds of mean solar time.


What is the revolution and rotation time of earth?

Rotation: 23 hours and 56 minutes. Revolution: A year. About 365 1/4 days.


When the earth completes one rotation the time period is a?

One rotation of the Earth corresponds to a period of 24 hours or one day.


What is the difference between a planet's period of rotation and period of revolution?

All planets in our solar system vary in the time it takes them to complete a revolution. This is due to their differing distances from the sun. As far as rotation goes, the time varies from nine hours and fifty minutes for Jupiter to 244 days for Venus to make a like rotation.


What does rotational period mean?

Period of rotation is the time taken for an object to complete exactly one revolution around another object, like the earth rotating around the sun or the moon rotating around the earth.