Spheroids and our Solar System
 

Why is it that every Planet and Moon in our Solar System is spherical ?

If you say gravity, then how does gravity cause these initially gaseous masses to eventually become spherical ? Not all these bodies rotate.

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Not every moon is, however for the planets:

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/a...planets-round-

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The correct answer and you have spoilt a good thread that the ordinary John Doe`s among us do not know the answer to.

Ah well, I tried.

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Apparently planets could form like a ring doughnut.

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Can you give an example ?

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Googling to find the answers to things is generally what people do around here. Are you unfamiliar with the way discussion forums work?

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[pedant]Oblate Spheroids surely[/pedant]

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No need to be insulting. I most likely know how discussion Forums work much better than you do. I have had 12 years experience and punched it out with the best of them. Discussion Forums are a source of knowledge - some give - some take.

Being a fanatical web surfer does not exclude one posting an interesting subject. Not all members of discussion Forums are budding Einsteins and remember - none of us ever stop learning.

For your exclusive education, I myself with a distinctive engineering science degree and a distinguished career in industry, only thought about why planets are spherical a few weeks ago and I am not ashamed to say so.

Just concentrate on making some positive contributions and refrain from mischievously nitpicking at a posters reasons for raising an interesting subject, albeit to a Guru like yourself the subject is self explanatory.

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Just out of curious its, what is a 'distinctive Engineering Degree"?

I have friends with degrees (and post-grad quals) Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering - whats distinctive about yours?

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If you have ever studied at a University and taken a degree examination, then if you do exceptionally well, you are awarded an honours grade. I was awarded 3 distinctions for separate subjects. Hence my more modest terminology of distinctive degree. I used the expression to cover an honours degree. Maybe my expression mislead you, sorry.

My educational prowess was a very long time ago when all we had was a slide rule and a book of logarithm and trigonometry tables - not a calculator in sight.

Happy now ?

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<a_XML_pedant>Oblate Spheroids surely</a_XML_pedant>

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You mean <an_XML_pedant>

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Honours degrees are issued to anyone who is merely average or better.

So you mean a degree with distinction? Because that's an actual term while what you're saying is not.

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Can we get back to the subject, rather than semantic nit-picking. Thanks.

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It's an interesting observation.
why is everything in the shape of a ball and not a square, a triangle. a splodge type shape?

could weight be a factor. combined with gravity?
I say this after wondering why drips are circles. and why a cracked egg into a frying pan forms into a noticeable circle type shape.

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I doubt it. He is making a good point. Your thread topics, whilst ok, are a little pedestrian. Are you in your late teens or twenties?

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The simple answer is because we live in a macroscopically three dimensional world.

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I wish I was.

My thread topics are extremely adult and of interest to those with the intelligence and wider interest to understand them. They are all either extremely scientific or intentionally amusing, nothing there to tease the brains of primary school children.

From your rather obscure comment, calling my contributions pedestrian, I am obliged to ask you a question : What kind of education have you had to make a juvenile constructed comment like that concerning subjects of reasonable complexity ?

If you took the trouble to look at my profile, you will see that I am retired. I am not aware that retirement is an option for many in their teens or twenties, unless Daddy is a millionaire or they have won the Lottery.

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Surely, it is for others to judge if your posts are "extremely adult and of interest to those with the intelligence and wider interest to understand them. They are all either extremely scientific or intentionally amusing", as you may not be impartial or subjective on this matter? ;)

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Does anyone remember Alan Fry? :D

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They don't seem anything like what I find on Google when looking for "extremely adult" content...

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BSc degree. I just call it as I see it and what I see are a series of threads from you asking questions that seem a bit pedestrian. But if that's what floats your boat, carry on :)

Short of meeting you in person (that's not a request), I have no way of verifying that you are indeed of retrement age. :shrug:
Anyhoo, do please carry on.

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12 years, still a noob then, I think you'll find that many of us have been on-line since well before 2003 (I certainly was)

I suspect however that if you keep up with your slightly strange postings, then people like qas will rip you to shreds whilst chortling into his cornflakes, you may want to rethink your strategy somewhat.

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Thank you so much for your compliments, I am a big boy and have no intention of rethinking anything.

I have bounced people like qas around like a punctured football all my life and won every time. Whoever this threat to humanity is, he poses no problem whatsoever to me whilst chortling into his cornflakes. Qas the the distinctive honour of being planted on my IGNORE list, so I cannot read a single word of his ranting ever again. Lise is now so good. I gave cornflakes up when I was in short pants. I grew up.

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I like cornflakes and I`m 62

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Except when other people quote my posts, just to see you suffer.

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Indeed, experience isn't everything. After 12 years of being crap at something you still come out of it being crap.

Heh, it seems the forum mods around here are doing a better job of ripping him to shreds than I :)

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Ah, must be fun to live a life of wilful ignorance, now that your usefulness has expired.

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QFT. :D

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:rofl: :rofl:

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