From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: the earth tips over
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 19:46:54 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith F. Lynch [mailto:kfl at keithlynch.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:30 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: the earth tips over

{snip}
Fortunately, nothing like this will ever happen with the earth or
any other planet or large moon, since they all have large equatorial
bulges for fairly fundamental reasons.  Large compared to ice caps,
mountain ranges, mascons, or any other out-of-round features, I mean.

I saw a science program (PBS, maybe Nova) a few years back that showed, by
way of photomicrography for size comparison of surface features, that Earth
is smoother than a billiard ball. Just an interesting factoid and/or point
to ponder.

Erica
President of the Extremey Smooth But Not Flat Earth Society