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That's not it, though (/-/ Rampant Speculation /-/)

by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, April 28, 2017, 18:46 (2548 days ago) @ ZackDark
edited by Cody Miller, Friday, April 28, 2017, 18:57

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time

Earth makes one rotation around its axis in a sidereal day; during that time it moves a short distance (about 1°) along its orbit around the Sun. So after a sidereal day has passed, Earth still needs to rotate slightly more before the Sun reaches local noon according to solar time. A mean solar day is, therefore, nearly 4 minutes longer than a sidereal day.

So yeah. If you were in a highly elliptical orbit around something really massive, your solar day could change by a lot.


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