Interesting Venus fact

[The Warthog]

According to David Letterman, the soup of the day on stays on the menu for 243 Earth days on Venus.

[Naz]

:D

naz

[legion48]

I hope it's not mulligatawny. I hate mulligatawny.

[The Warthog]

If it's a Canadian restaurant, it's probably either chicken noodle or minestrone.

[G1ZmO]

Another odd thing about Venus:

A day is longer than a year since the orbital period around the sun is 224.7 days but the period of rotation is 243.01 days. It also rotates "retrograde"

Paul

[The Warthog]

OK, then. Supposing you could see the sun from Venus, how long would pass between successive noons?

[Ant]

243.01 days...

[The Warthog]

But after 243.01 days, the revolution of the planet around the sun would cause the sun to be away from the zenith, by about 30 degrees. So, it would either already have passed overhead, or be waiting to cover that angular distance. The same thing happens here, but the difference is only 4 minutes per day.

I can't work it out. Not clever enough.

[barkis]

The soup certainly won't get cold WH, but it might burn your mouth and not just from the heat

Ron.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

OK, then. Supposing you could see the sun from Venus, how long would pass between successive noons?

Ages.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[The Warthog]

OK, I looked it up. http://cseligman.com/text/sky/rotationvsday.htm It's about 116 days, so I'll have to write Letterman and tell him he's wrong. I couldn't have worked that out for myself in a month of Sundays, which is about 1.5 Venus days.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

That could lead to a cracking lunch break, couldn't it.

Remember guys, if you go to work on another planet, charge by the terrestrial hour. You could get stung otherwise.

Kaptain Klevtsov