Terme de Glossaire

Universal Time (UT)

Time scale based on an average solar day (rotation of the earth on its axis in relation to the sun). It is affected by irregularities and variations in the short term (depending notably on the distribution of the constitutive masses  of our planet, for instance) and slows down in the long term (the earth rotates more and more slowly on its axis).

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