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unit:DAY_Sidereal

http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/DAY_Sidereal
Types: qudt:Unit
PredicateObject
rdf:type qudt:Unit
dcterms:description The length of time which passes between a given fixed star in the sky crossing a given projected meridian (line of longitude). The sidereal day is \(23 h 56 m 4.1 s\), slightly shorter than the solar day because the Earth 's orbital motion about the Sun means the Earth has to rotate slightly more than one turn with respect to the "fixed" stars in order to reach the same Earth-Sun orientation. Another way of thinking about the difference is that it amounts to \(1/365.2425^{th}\) of a day per day, since even if the Earth did not spin on its axis at all, the Sun would appear to make one rotation around the Earth as the Earth completed a single orbit (which takes one year).
qudt:applicableSystem
qudt:conversionMultiplier 86164.099
qudt:conversionMultiplierSN 8.6164099E4
qudt:hasDimensionVector qkdv:A0E0L0I0M0H0T1D0
qudt:hasQuantityKind quantitykind:Time
qudt:informativeReference
qudt:scalingOf unit:SEC
qudt:symbol “day{sidereal}”
qudt:wikidataMatch http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1778552
rdfs:isDefinedBy http://qudt.org/3.1.11/vocab/unit
rdfs:label
  • “Sidereal Day”
  • “Sidereal Day”@en
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