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rotation, Uranus’ magnetic field is tipped over: the magnetic axis is tilted nearly 60 degrees from the planet’s axis of rotation, and is also offset from the center of the planet by one-third of the
(a) Uranus: the rotation period is (16.5789 ± 0.0002) hr and the adopted equatorial radius is 25,559 km. The corresponding polar radius is (25023 ± 4) km. The solid line represents a polynomial fit to the wind-velocity residuals referenced to the uniformly rotating geoid.
23 cze 2023 · The tilt in Uranus' axis subjects its magnetic poles to long, dark winters and long, bright summers. It takes 17 hours for Uranus to orbit or rotate completely. But it takes about 84 Earth years (30,687 Earth days) for Uranus to make a complete orbit around the sun.
The recent fly-by of Uranus by the Voyager 2 spacecraft provided a singular opportunity to measure one of the fundamental but poorly known physical properties of the planet, its intrinsic...
The approaches examined are: (1) using theoretical interior models together with observations of the oblateness and the gravitational moment; (2) studying periodic fluctuations in the brightness; and (3) spectrographically measuring the Doppler shifts (line tilts).
Uranus has an unusual, irregularly shaped magnetosphere. Magnetic fields are typically in alignment with a planet's rotation, but Uranus' magnetic field is tipped over: the magnetic axis is tilted nearly 60 degrees from the planet's axis of rotation, and is also offset from the center of the planet by one-third of the planet's radius.
One day on Uranus takes about 17 hours. This is the amount of time it takes Uranus to rotate, or spin once around its axis. Uranus makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Uranian time) in about 84 Earth years (30,687 Earth days).
