Oblateness

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4568. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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The degree of flattening of an oblate spheroid, the solid body obtained by rotating an ellipse about its minor axis. The shape of the Earth is approximately an oblate spheroid, for the equatorial diameter is slightly greater than the polar diameter. Jupiter and Saturn are considerably more oblate than the Earth. If a hypothetical planet had a polar radius of 10 000 km and an equatorial radius of ...

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