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### If Earth Were Filled with a Compressible Fluid and Spun Really Fast, What Hollow Would Form? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What nonlinear deformations will a fast rotating planet exhibit? This is really a basic physics question that I wanted to check myself on because I'm not entirely sure of the ...
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### Simple check for the global shape of the Earth

I have been on a date recently, and everything went fine until the moment the girl has told me that the Earth is flat. After realizing she was not trolling me, and trying to provide her with a couple ...
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### Are “broken” planets possible in the real world?

In the Star Wars universe, there are mentioned (or rather shown) two planets that had some kind of great explosion in their history. First is Peragus, with its exposed core, that partially exploded ...
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### Does Earth's Rotation Affect Its Shape?

The question I am working on is, "Consider the following. (a) Find the angular speed of Earth's rotation about its axis. rad/s (b) How does this rotation affect the shape of Earth?" I am ...
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### How fast would the Earth need to spin for us to feel weightless?

It's a classic question with many answers all over the Internet, but none here so I figured I'd ask it: How fast would the Earth need to spin for a person (or anything for that matter) to feel ...
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### Toroidal Planets

I have read online in numerous places about the possible existence of toroidal planets, and I most people seem to believe that they could exist, but they also have no evidence to support this claim. I ...
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### How would gravity change on a planet rotating around itself very fast?

Let's take a planet identical to Earth, but with rotation speed multiplied by ten thousand. What would happen with the gravity if it was spinning madly around itself? Would the centrifugal force make ...
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### Is the planet Mesklin as described in Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity correct?

The book Mission of Gravity describes a planet with a mass of 16 times Jupiter spinning at a rate of one revolution every 17.75 minutes. This causes it to stretch out into an oblate spheroid and has ...
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### Keeping air in a giant gravitationally-bound space balloon

Let's say a space-faring society wants to make a space station that has a large volume filled with air (or other gas), but no gravity. Using normal pressure tanks will require gathering an amount of ...
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### Will the Earth flatten out?

Since the rotation of the earth makes it more flat,due to the centrifugal forces, is it not possible for the force to completely flatten out earth into a plane ?
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### Earth's rotation isn't that orbit?

If the earth is rotating at some $465~\text{m}/\text{s}$ at the equator and that's really fast. Shouldn't we in that case be in orbit with the earth just not fast enough? How fast do we need to move?...