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Mar 17 at 11:28 comment added John Doty hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
Mar 17 at 5:11 comment added Ryan Cavanaugh The polar diameter is 7,899.8km. The equatorial diameter is 7,926.4km. The 0.3% difference is not going to be visible in any depiction, photographic or otherwise.
Mar 17 at 3:18 history duplicates list edited Qmechanic♦ duplicates list edited from Why is the Earth so fat?, Why are stars, planets and larger moons (approximately) spherical in shape (like, the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, and other planets)? to Why is the Earth so fat?, Why are stars, planets and larger moons (approximately) spherical in shape (like, the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, and other planets)?, Is it possible to prove that planets should be approximately spherical using the calculus of variations?
Mar 17 at 3:17 history duplicates list edited Qmechanic♦ duplicates list edited from Why are stars, planets and larger moons (approximately) spherical in shape (like, the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, and other planets)? to Why is the Earth so fat?, Why are stars, planets and larger moons (approximately) spherical in shape (like, the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, and other planets)?
Mar 17 at 3:15 history closed Qmechanic♦ Duplicate of Why are stars, planets and larger moons (approximately) spherical in shape (like, the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, and other planets)?
Mar 17 at 3:14 comment added Qmechanic♦ Possible duplicates: physics.stackexchange.com/q/8074/2451 , physics.stackexchange.com/q/26297/2451 , physics.stackexchange.com/q/107584/2451 and links therein.
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Mar 17 at 1:54 comment added Solomon Slow The Earth is round. But, as widely discussed, it isn't perfectly round.
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