2007-01-26 11:17:19 · 10 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
no its slighlty flattened but has no bulge
2007-01-26 11:26:15 · answer #1 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Due to the rotation of the earth centrifugal force causes the earth bulge at the equator.
2007-01-27 08:42:22 · answer #2 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It's really more slightly eliptical than it is a sphere. It bulges out at the equator. It's really a gravity well if you look at things in the fourth dimension.
2007-01-26 19:23:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the poles are flatter and the equator bulges
2007-01-26 19:21:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the equator. And the poles are slightly flattened to compensate.
There aren't really noticible even from high orbit. They are THAT small, but they are measurable.
2007-01-26 19:25:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define bulge.
The Earth is not a perfect sphere. It is an oblate spheroid.
2007-01-26 19:21:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea! it looks like a light bulb for some and for others, it looks like middle age spread - fat in the middle. Aha! I see the light - a fatso with a big backside (siiting too long and waiting for the fruit to drop).
2007-01-26 19:24:43 · answer #7 · answered by Tom Cat 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only when Dolly Parton is laying on the beach!!!!!
2007-01-26 19:22:41 · answer #8 · answered by scifiguy 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in the sense that its an oblate spheroid...
2007-01-26 19:21:29 · answer #9 · answered by Revel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yess it doess!!!!
2007-01-26 20:20:21 · answer #10 · answered by V.A. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋