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>

---------- Post added at 16:18 ---------- Previous post was at 16:16 ----------

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.