Saturday 19 January 2019

How long is a Saturnian day? Now we know

Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft has allowed astronomers to calculate the length of a Saturnian day

Reset your interplanetary watches because data from NASA's Cassini probe has finally answered the question of how long a day on Saturn is. Using the planet's giant rings as a natural seismograph, a team led by UC Santa Cruz astronomy and astrophysics graduate student Christopher Mankovich calculates that Saturn rotates once every 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2QZPJT4

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