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Old July 1st 04, 01:49 AM
pearl
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Default Maybe you sci.astro.amateur and sci.astro readers can explain this

"Sam Wormley" wrote in message ...
pearl wrote:

It's been pointed out to you by someone else that centrifugal
force will cause a spherical body to become oblate, without
becoming completely flat. Is this a throwback to your past
life as chief honcho of the flat-earth society, 'common man'?


The Earth IS a oblate spheroid and is modeled very well by the
WGS-84 ellipsoid and datum


Wow!

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