How many minutes are there in one week on Jupiter?

Question

On the planet Jupiter, one day is equal yo 9.925 hours on Earth.

Answer 1

Aye, there's the rub...
If calculated in Earth time, campbelp2002 has the correct formula.
How many Jovian days are a Jovian week?

Answer 2

So if you know the number of Earth hours in a Jovian day, and you assume that a week on Jupiter is 7 Earth days long, then can't you calculate the number of minutes that equals?
9.925 hours x 60 minutes per hour x 7 days = ...

Answer 3

Depends.. if this is a homework question of some kind, beware: it could be a trick question. A week is a week is a week. A week is equivalent to seven days here on earth, and would be measured the same whether on earth, travelling in space, or on some other planet or suitable satellite.

In that case, it is 60*24*7, just like it is here on earth, regardless of wherever in the cosmos you might happen to be.

From a different perspective, it could be that the answer being sought, is the calculation of seven days' worth of time on the surface of Jupiter, which, could be argued to be incalculable, based on the supposition that the Jovian atmosphere is so thick that unlike the worst of overcast days here on earth, absolutely no sunlight ever reaches the jovian surface, therefore making the very concept of units of measuing time like terran days and weeks utterly useless on Jupiter.

So, in addition to the answers that the contributors who beat me to your quesiton gave, which, are also perfectly conceivably correct answers, I would recommend that you be aware of at least these other two options.

Answer 4

It depends entirely on what you mean by a week. A Jupiter day is something defined by the planet - it's the time it takes it to turn so that the sun is back in the same position in the sky.

But week doesn't mean anything at all, except what we want it to mean. If you mean 7 jupiter days, then it is 7 days times 9.925 hours per day times 60 minutes per hour.

Answer 5

9.925 *7 * 60
Do the math.