Saturn's 'day' shorter by five minutes
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 12:49
in Physics & Chemistry
A day on Saturn is pretty short, and it just got shorter. The time it takes the beringed behemoth to complete a spin on its axis has just been calculated by astrophysicists at 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds, more than five minutes shorter than previous estimates.