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Subject:
science
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: webweaverlady-ga List Price: $3.00 |
Posted:
17 Jul 2003 16:56 PDT
Expires: 16 Aug 2003 16:56 PDT Question ID: 232244 |
How would the Sun's activity be different if it didn't rotate differentially? Why? |
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Re: science
Answered By: wonko-ga on 17 Jul 2003 17:39 PDT Rated: ![]() |
"Yes, the Sun does rotate. We can observed this by observing sunspots. All sunspots move across the face of the Sun. This motion is part of the general rotation of the Sun on its axis. Observations also indicate that the Sun does not rotate as a solid body, but it spins differentially. That means that it rotates faster at the equator of the Sun and slower at its poles. (The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn also have differential rotation.) The movements of the sunspots indicate that the Sun rotates once every 27 days at the equator, but only once in 31 days at the poles." http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970108a.html "Rotation of the Sun" By Padi Boyd, Imagine the Universe! One would expect sunspots to rotate at the same periodicity regardless of location if the Sun did not rotate differentially. This would be because the Sun would be rotating as a solid body. Sincerely, Wonko |
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