By how many minutes do two consecutive longitudes differ?
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Two consecutive longitudes differ in 4 minutes. Rotation of the earth around the sun causes day and night. The earth takes 365.5 days to rotate around the sun.
The earth’s rotation lasts till the 24hours. When the earth start rotates it rotates from east to west direction in the 24 hours a day.
If it comes to count of longitudes, then there are uncountable longitudes from which the earth crosses.
In any of the event, all the lines of the longitude face the sun 24 hours.
Moving from one longitude to another is a matter of a difference for 4 minutes.
The calculation goes as follows:
360 degree = 24 hours,
1 hr = 15 degrees,
1 degree = 4 minutes.
Hence the difference is 4 minutes between two adjacent longitudes.
There are 360 imaginary longitudes in total all across the earth.