Sentences with phrase «slow rotation period»
Although CO2 concentrations may have had some effect by raising the planet's temperature, Venus» slow rotation period still had a larger impact.
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god's clock must be off because the earth isn't naturally broken down into 12 hour periods because the earth is slowing in it's rotation.
They slow down the stellar rotations, expanding the orbital period.»
Our point was that Earth's rotation has slowed by a total of three hours over the course of 2,000 years, for an average of 0.015 second per day: If you think of Earth's period of rotation as a kind of clock, it would be three hours slow by now.
They slow down the stellar rotations, expanding the orbital period,» Fleming said.
For years, astronomers have estimated the age of a pulsar by measuring the rotation period of its neutron star and the tiny amount by which that rotation slows down over time.
While the Sun does not rotate as a solid body (the rotational period is 25 days at the equator and about 35 days at the poles), it takes approximately 28 days to complete one full rotation; the centrifugal effect of this slow rotation is 18 million times weaker than the surface gravity at the Sun's equator.
There is also the coincidence problem that since the rotation of the Earth changes over time [it slows down] we live in the special period where the natural cycles just happen to match that of the Sun.