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Rotation period - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Articulation, Bank, Beat, Buzz, Catapult, Catena, Catenation, Chain, Circle, Circuit, Circulation, Concatenation, Connection, Continuation, Continuity, Continuum, Course |
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In astronomy, a rotation period is the time an astronomical object takes to complete one revolution around its rotation axis.
Rotation period of selected objects
| Mercury
| 58.6462 d (58 d 15.5088 h)
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| Venus
| −243.0185 d
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| Earth
| 0.997 268 d (23.9344 h) (86 164 s)
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| Moon
| 27.321 661 d (synchronous)
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| Mars
| 1.025 957 d (24.622 962 h)
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| Jupiter
| 0.413 538 021 d (9 h 55 min 29.685 s)
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| Saturn
| 0.444 009 259 2 d (10 h 39 min 22.400 00 s)
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| Uranus
| −0.718 333 333 d (17 h 14 min 24.000 00 s)
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| Neptune
| 0.671 250 00 d (16 h 6 min 36.000 00 s)
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| Pluto
| −6.387 d (6 d 9 h 17.6 min)
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