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By *dsindyTV/TS
over a year ago
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No planet is round.....none....not one single one discovered is round....NOT ONE.
Why I hear you ask? Why?
Well, to answer your question and sate your curiosity, the reason is rotation. |
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"No planet is round.....none....not one single one discovered is round....NOT ONE.
Why I hear you ask? Why?
Well, to answer your question and sate your curiosity, the reason is rotation."
They don’t all rotate |
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By *dsindyTV/TS
over a year ago
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"No planet is round.....none....not one single one discovered is round....NOT ONE.
Why I hear you ask? Why?
Well, to answer your question and sate your curiosity, the reason is rotation.
They don’t all rotate "
Yes they do....some moons may be tidally locked, and Venus is locked in a near solar lock (243 day rotation versus 224.7 day orbital but still has a rotation) hence rotation stress will cause them to bulge at their equatorial region. |
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"No planet is round.....none....not one single one discovered is round....NOT ONE.
Why I hear you ask? Why?
Well, to answer your question and sate your curiosity, the reason is rotation."
Surely they're round around the equator, but not through their rotational axis? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No planet is round.....none....not one single one discovered is round....NOT ONE.
Why I hear you ask? Why?
Well, to answer your question and sate your curiosity, the reason is rotation.
They don’t all rotate
Yes they do....some moons may be tidally locked, and Venus is locked in a near solar lock (243 day rotation versus 224.7 day orbital but still has a rotation) hence rotation stress will cause them to bulge at their equatorial region."
Yes your absolutely right I do apologise I just had a quick google and I was thinking tidally locked once again sorry  |
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By *dsindyTV/TS
over a year ago
East Lancashire |
"No planet is round.....none....not one single one discovered is round....NOT ONE.
Why I hear you ask? Why?
Well, to answer your question and sate your curiosity, the reason is rotation.
Surely they're round around the equator, but not through their rotational axis?"
No, they bulge at different points due to solar tides...so not round. |
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"Nothing to do with sex . However I think someone will probably turn it that way!!!
Question.
Why are planets round? "
They came round for sex because people can't come round.
I had a wonderful time with uranus, OP.  |
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the gravity effect of the sun causes earth to bulge at the equator, not the rotation of the earth.
our own moon causes the tides on earth, so isn't tidal locked to the earth, the moons gravity causes the tides on earth.
the moon rotates on it's own axis at the same speed as it orbits the earth, so it always faces the same way to earth.
there is no dark side of the moon, as it faces the sun and so is illuminated by the sun. and the earth casts a shadow onto the moon.
the moons orbit and size, equates to the different distance and size of the sun. which is why we have eclipses.
planets are not round because gravity is trying to pull it together and rotation is trying to pull it apart, |
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What about the disc which is resting on the backs of four huge elephants, which are in turn standing in the back of an enormous turtle called Great A'Tuin? |
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"What about the disc which is resting on the backs of four huge elephants, which are in turn standing in the back of an enormous turtle called Great A'Tuin?"
a fellow fan  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No planet is round.....none....not one single one discovered is round....NOT ONE.
Why I hear you ask? Why?
Well, to answer your question and sate your curiosity, the reason is rotation.
They don’t all rotate "
Name one that doesn't.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"They are not perfectly round of course but overall they are better described as round than any other shape.
Anyway Victoria Coren Mitchell is on TV so my attention is diverted"
Oblate spheroid is the term you are looking for... |
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"What about the disc which is resting on the backs of four huge elephants, which are in turn standing in the back of an enormous turtle called Great A'Tuin?"
Shhhh. Not everyone knows the truth!! |
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