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Undergrad Can Planetary Gravity Flatten an Egg-Shaped Planet?
The Earth is slightly squashed shaped because it spins. You weigh slightly less at the Equator than at the North or South Poles. (Centrifugal force) There is a complete BALANCE of Gravitational forces at the Center of the Earth because it is surrounded by the Earth's mass that is pulling in all...- runswithbeer
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