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Sidereal Day

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DaySidereal=86164.09s
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One Sidereal Day is  23.9344699 hours or 86164.09 seconds

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The sidereal day accounts for the fact that the Earth is traveling around the Sun in addition to rotating on its axis.  The Earth rotates in 86,400 seconds (24 hr X 60 min/hr * 60 s/min) and the solar day is 1/365 time longer than this because in one day the Earth traverses 1/365 of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.


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