What is 17000min in Sidereal Seconds?

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What is 17000 Minutes (17000min) in Sidereal Seconds (s-sr)?

What is 17000min in s-sr? Convert 17000 Minutes (17000min) to Sidereal Seconds (s-sr) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Minutes to Sidereal Seconds

Formula
s-sr = min x 60.16
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Sidereal Seconds, multiply the number of Minutes by 60.2
Minutes (min) in 1 Sidereal Second
There are 0.02 Minutes in 1 Sidereal Second
Sidereal Seconds (s-sr) in 1 Minute
There are 60.16 Sidereal Seconds in 1 Minute

Unit Information

Minute
/ˈmɪnɪt/
Symbol: min
Unit System: SI

What is the Minute?

The minute is a unit of time and is a multiple of an SI base unit with the symbol m.

There are 60 seconds in a minute. There are 60 minutes in an hour.

The Iranian scholar and polymath Al-Biruni who lived through the Islamic Golden Age (circa 1000 AD) was the first to split the hour sexagesimally (by 60) and introduced what we now understand as the “minute”.

It is understood in modern society to represent a relatively short amount of time – and is used very commonly in language to ask for a short break; hence the phrase “wait a minute”, “uno momento” and “un moment s’il vous plait”.

Sidereal Second
/sʌɪˈdɪərɪəlˈsɛk(ə)nd/
Symbol: s-sr
Unit System: SI

What is the Sidereal Second?

The sidereal second is a unit of time used by astronomers and is derived from the SI unit system. We have used the symbol s-sr.

1 sidereal second is 1/60 of a sidereal minute. This is derived ultimately from the sidereal day which is the time taken (in solar seconds) for the Earth to complete one rotation with respect to a distant star or constellation.

Like with normal seconds, minutes, hours and days, there are still 60 x 60 x 24 seconds in a day, but the day itself is approximately 23 h 56 min and 4.1 s in (normal) seconds.


Conversion Tables for Minutes (min) to Sidereal Seconds (s-sr)