canonical time unit

0.01 sec.

canonical time unit [kə′nän·ə·kəl ′tīm ‚yü·nət]

(astronomy)

For geocentric orbits, the time required by a hypothetical satellite to move one radian in a circular orbit of the earth's equatorial radius, that is, 13.447052 minutes.

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