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.

[BenMcr]

Not every moon is, however for the planets:

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

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Not every moon is, however for the planets:

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

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.

[Taf]

Apparently planets could form like a ring doughnut.

Originally Posted by Taf

Apparently planets could form like a ring doughnut.

Can you give an example ?

Originally Posted by Wittmann

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.

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

[Taf]

Originally Posted by Wittmann

Can you give an example ?

http://io9.com/what-would-the-earth-...a-d-1515700296

[heero_yuy]

[pedant]Oblate Spheroids surely[/pedant]

Originally Posted by Chris

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

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.

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?

Originally Posted by Hugh

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?

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 ?

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

[pedant]Oblate Spheroids surely[/pedant]

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Originally Posted by ianch99

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You mean <an_XML_pedant>

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Originally Posted by Wittmann

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.

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

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.

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

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

[Gary L]

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.