or is it in some seconds less or more?
2006-12-23 20:37:45 · 8 answers · asked by Rana Umer 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The period of a rotation compared to the sun is 24 hours exactly by definition.
Compared to the stars it is 4 min shorter.
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2006-12-24 10:25:43 · answer #1 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes the Earth 23 hours and fifty six minutes to rotate around totally. because of the fact this is constantly vacationing around the sunlight, it takes precisely 24 hours to stand a similar way in the direction of the sunlight lower back.
2016-11-23 14:40:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't recall the exact value - but no it is not exactly 24 hours, nor is a year exactly 365 days - that's the reason we have leap years, and leap seconds - to compensate for the inaccuracies.
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2006-12-23 20:41:29 · answer #3 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the Earth is slowing slightly and they have to delay the clocks by about a second every 20 years.
2006-12-23 20:43:03 · answer #4 · answered by Bart S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A day is currently 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds long, and very slowly getting longer.
2006-12-24 00:52:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not exactly, but an approx. of 24 hours.
2006-12-23 22:08:55 · answer #6 · answered by Akshay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a margin of error in every thing
2006-12-23 20:43:27 · answer #7 · answered by suliman2k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it take longer look up NASA
2006-12-23 20:40:59 · answer #8 · answered by rocketman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋