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EXAMPLE 11. THE OUTERMOST LARGE SATELLITES – THEIR MOVEMENTS SYNCHRONIZED WITH EARTH’S ROTATION.

In Examples 4, above, we saw how The Outermost Large Satellites have their movements very precisely synchronized with THE EARTH YEAR. Now we will see how these Outermost Large Satellites also have their movements very precisely synchronized with THE EARTH DAY.

Here is a list of The OUTERMOST LARGE Satellites of The Solar System, together with their orbital periods (expressed in Earth days). Earth’s OUTERMOST LARGE Satellite is The Moon (27.32166) and Jupiter’s OUTERMOST LARGE Satellite is Callisto (16.6890184) and Saturn’s OUTERMOST LARGE Satellite is Iapetus (79.3301825) and Uranus’ OUTERMOST LARGE Satellite is Oberon (13.4632423) and Neptune’s OUTERMOST LARGE Satellite is Triton (5.8768441). Note:- Mercury and Venus have no satellites; and Mars has no LARGE satellites, and we will treat Pluto as a Trans-Neptunian Object, rather than as a planet for this example. The Earth Year = 365.256 Earth days. Earth’s sidereal rotation period (ie:- its rotation period in relation to the fixed stars) = 0.9972697 Earth days.

(A). During The Moon’s orbital period, Earth rotates (sidereally) 27 rotations + a residual angle of 142.7 degrees.

(B). During Callisto’s orbital period, Earth rotates (sidereally) 16 rotations + a residual angle of 264.5 degrees.

Iapetus “fails” the Octant Rule.

(C). During Oberon’s orbital period, Earth rotates (sidereally) 13 rotations + a residual angle of 180.04 degrees.

(D). During Triton’s orbital period, Earth rotates (sidereally) 5 rotations + a residual angle of 321.5 degrees.

Sample calculation – B:- (16.6890184 ÷ 0.9972697) = 16.7347 Earth sidereal rotations, ie:- 16 rotations + (0.7347 x 360) = a residual angle of 264.5 degrees.

When you depict each of these four residual angles as a (single line) radius, the four radiuses look like this:-