fossilesqueM to Science MemesEnglish · 11 months agouncomfortable levels of eye contactimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1668arrow-down111
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minus-squarekase@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoSo in a certain sense, a ‘day’ on Mercury is 2.034090909090 ‘years’ long? (Solar day divided by orbiting the sun, lol)
minus-squarebrianorca@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-211 months agoNo. I rounded off the numbers. A Mercury day is exactly 2 Mercury years. Which is why it’s “in resonance”. That means that gravity will speed up or slow down the rotation to keep the ratio stable over time.
So in a certain sense, a ‘day’ on Mercury is 2.034090909090 ‘years’ long? (Solar day divided by orbiting the sun, lol)
No. I rounded off the numbers. A Mercury day is exactly 2 Mercury years. Which is why it’s “in resonance”. That means that gravity will speed up or slow down the rotation to keep the ratio stable over time.
Oh that’s really neat!