Neptune's rotational period suggested by the extraordinary stability of two features

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Sep 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011icar..215..439k&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 215, Issue 1, p. 439-448.

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Neptune's rotational period improved from 16.108 ± 0.006 h to 15.9663 ± 0.0002 h. Two features observed on Neptune for >20 years rotate with extraordinary stability. They pinpoint Neptune's interior rotational period at 15.9663 ± 0.0002 h. It is a major improvement in 346 years of measuring the giant planets' rotations. Eight more features also remained aligned in longitude. Winds near Neptune's South Pole are calm, but move 300 m/s eastward near 76° South.

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