Earth today is still classed as an oblate sphere ... for a long time but never before had we thought to check the shape of the planets as they form in the simulations. “We had always assumed ...

So, Earth's orbit only has a relatively tiny deviation from perfect circularity. But why is it so often shown as practically an egg shape? And how can we visualize the real situation? In order to ...

The Shape of the Earth As is well known, the earth is a slightly flattened sphere, but it also departs from the spherical in other interesting ways. These departures have been most clearly ...