The oblateness of the planet. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Newton's derivation of the precession from the gravitational action of the Moon and Sun raised three unresolved questions: What are the correct values for the mass of the Moon and the oblateness of the Earth?. From Wordnik.com. [Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica] Reference
Discovery by Cassini of the oblateness of the planet. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
Discovery by Newton of the oblateness of the Earth. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict between Religion and Science] Reference
Two facts are revealed by the oblateness of the earth: 1. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
Discovery by Cassini of the oblateness of the planet Jupiter. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict between Religion and Science] Reference
Right: In this diagram, the sun's oblateness has been magnified 10,000 times for easy visibility. From Wordnik.com. [Science @ NASA] Reference
Their technique is particularly sensitive to small differences in polar vs. equatorial diameter or "oblateness.". From Wordnik.com. [Science @ NASA] Reference
The glowing white magnetic network is what gives the sun its extra oblateness during times of high solar activity. From Wordnik.com. [Science @ NASA] Reference
During years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that significantly increases its apparent oblateness. From Wordnik.com. [Science @ NASA] Reference
"The corrected oblateness of the non-magnetic sun is 8.01 + - 0.14 milli-arcseconds, near the value expected from simple rotation.". From Wordnik.com. [Science @ NASA] Reference
I had prepared a map of its track, in which an important error of the Berliner Jahrbuch (arising from neglect of the earth's oblateness) was corrected. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography]
From its rotation there result the oblateness of its form, the alternations of day and night, and (under the influence of the moon) the tides, aqueous and atmospheric. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
Further analysis of RHESSI oblateness data could also help researchers detect a long-sought type of seismic wave echoing through the interior of the sun: gravitational oscillations or. From Wordnik.com. [Science @ NASA] Reference
Solar physicists have known about supergranules and the magnetic network they produce for many years, but only now has RHESSI revealed their unexpected connection to the sun's oblateness. From Wordnik.com. [Science @ NASA] Reference
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It was thus when the difference in the rates of a clock at the equator, and nearer the poles, gave data for calculating the oblateness of the earth, and accounting for the precession of the equinoxes. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
Applying the idea of centrifugal force to the earth considered as a rotating body, he perceived that it could not be a true sphere, and calculated its oblateness, obtaining 28 miles greater equatorial than polar diameter. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
"They indicate that the core of the sun cannot be rotating much more rapidly than the surface, and that the sun's oblateness is too small to change the orbit of Mercury outside the bounds of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.". From Wordnik.com. [Science @ NASA] Reference
The supposed rotation (spinning) can be studied by reviewing the earth's oblateness, the wind patterns, the force of projectiles and spacecraft, force of air falling bodies, the direct observation from the moon, the Coriolis effect, and so on. From Wordnik.com. Reference
They discovered that it's not only not perfectly round, but during years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that significantly increases its apparent oblateness -- the sun's equatorial radius becomes slightly larger than its polar radius. From Wordnik.com. [The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning] Reference
Mathematical investigations of incontrovertible evidence, show us that were the earth of equal density throughout, the flattening at the poles would be 1/234 of the equatorial diameter; that in the hypothetical case of infinite density at the centre, and infinite rarity at the surface, the flattening would be no more than 1/578; while, were the surface more dense than the interior, or did a cavity exist within, the oblateness must be greater than 1/234. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
Discovery by Newton of the oblateness of the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
No oblateness whatever. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life] Reference
Newton, Sir L, discovers the earth's oblateness, 189; his "Principia," 235, 237; example from his philosophy, 301. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict between Religion and Science] Reference
E. Earth, its form, 108; measured by Al-Mamuia, 109; theological view of, 153; measures of 155 166 circumnavigation of, 164; 'moas.' ured by the French, 166; dimen. sions of, 167, 174; distance from the sun, 173; age of, 182; oblateness of, 189; formation of, 189; antiquity of, 194; decline of her heat, 244. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict between Religion and Science] Reference
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