What is 48min in Sidereal Days?

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What is 48 Minutes (48min) in Sidereal Days (d-sr)?

What is 48min in d-sr? Convert 48 Minutes (48min) to Sidereal Days (d-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 Days

Formula
d-sr = min / 1436.07
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Sidereal Days, divide the number of Minutes by 1.4 thousand
Minutes (min) in 1 Sidereal Day
There are 1436.07 Minutes in 1 Sidereal Day
Sidereal Days (d-sr) in 1 Minute
There are 0 Sidereal Days 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 Day
/sʌɪˈdɪərɪəl deɪ/
Symbol: d-sr
Unit System: SI

What is the Sidereal Day?

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

Sidereal literally means "of the stars". Otherwise known as the "orbital period", it defines the time period taken for two point masses to orbit each other.

On Earth, we used the solar day to regularise time and this represents the period taken to orbit the sun. The sidereal day (or stellar day) is the time taken for the earth to rotate with respect to a distant star and equals 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.0905 seconds (or 86164.1 s, 23.934 h).


Conversion Tables for Minutes (min) to Sidereal Days (d-sr)