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rotating on its own axis over millions of years against atmosphere has shaved the corners off,making it round for now,and this process will make it smaller and smaller over millions of years,(just like a piece of ice will melt and turned round if rotated in a drill machine). Comment

2006-06-13 23:59:54 · 4 answers · asked by daydreamer 3 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

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For the most part, the atmosphere moves along with the surface of the earth. On the other hand, winds going in any direction tend to grind down mountain peaks.

However, if the Earth were not fairly close to round, then the molten lava inside the earth would rupture the crust and deform the earth into a round shape. The main reason the Earth is round is gravity, not wind.

2006-06-14 00:06:46 · answer #1 · answered by NotEasilyFooled 5 · 0 0

actually the thing is the planets r nothing but stars according to my knowledge ther should be only one at the starting point later on ti must get bursted out and another star could be created and so on it continued to be more stars,at one moment start power reduced and it had been a normal surface with rock later on due tothe gases in atmosphere it could have became a planet with oxygen and without oxygen and full of hot valcano's etc .

2006-06-14 07:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by satheeshshankar 2 · 0 0

You're wrong. The Earth is round because of gravity. It used to be more liquid, and liquids in space become spheres. Nothing has been "shaved off." If anything, we are gaining mass.

2006-06-14 07:06:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Um, no only gaseous planets are related to stars, stars are sphere of highly compressed gasses i.e. our sun is a ball of mainly compressed hydrogen. Most plantets that we know of on the other hand are made of metals and minerals and other elements...

2006-06-14 14:03:44 · answer #4 · answered by Appalachian Arbiter 2 · 0 0

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