Thursday, August 4, 2011
Which planet most closely resembles a perfect sphere?
The Earth is an oblate spheroid, but quite close to a perfect sphere. Its flatness is of only ~0.0033, and overall seems to be closer to a sphere than the average billiards ball. But what about the other planets? Are any of them doing better than us?
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