packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
No, as the stories above make clear, the number is in fact in minutes of time. The object all along was to change the orbit of a moonlet of a larger asteroid by nudging the moonlet closer to the larger asteroid, which decreased the amount of time it takes for the moonlet to complete one full orbit. As far as I know the large asteroid's overall orbit wasn't changed at all, so measurements in degrees really don't enter into the picture as far as the two traveling through the Solar System goes.
Thank you, I was confused as to what they actually meant by minutes.