What is 18min in Sidereal Years?

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What is 18 Minutes (18min) in Sidereal Years (a-sr)?

What is 18min in a-sr? Convert 18 Minutes (18min) to Sidereal Years (a-sr) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

Enter Minutes to convert to Sidereal Years


Quick Reference for Converting Minutes to Sidereal Years

Formula
a-sr = min / 525969.16
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Sidereal Years, divide the number of Minutes by 526 thousand
Minutes (min) in 1 Sidereal Year
There are 525969.16 Minutes in 1 Sidereal Year
Sidereal Years (a-sr) in 1 Minute
There are 0 Sidereal Years 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 Year
/sʌɪˈdɪərɪəl jɪə,jəː/
Symbol: a-sr
Unit System: SI

What is the Sidereal Year?

The sidereal year is a unit of time that is a multiple of an SI unit. We have used the symbol a-sr.

From the Latin ‘sidus’ for ‘star’, sidereal is a term used to describe the orbital time of the earth or an object to complete one full cycle with respect to a fixed, distant star or constellation pattern.

The sidereal year is defined as 365.242 190 402 days of 86,400 SI seconds. This is 20 minutes and 24.5 seconds longer than a tropical year.


Conversion Tables for Minutes (min) to Sidereal Years (a-sr)