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Posted by John Freck on August 26, 2006, 4:04 pm
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What is the proper term for a celestial body that is nearly spherical
body? Is there any term, a word or noun phrase, that describes and
takes altogether our moon, Pluto, the spherical moons of Jupiter, and
Saturn, Ceres, and other dwarf planents?
John
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Posted by Jean-Marc Becker on August 26, 2006, 4:39 pm
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> What is the proper term for a celestial body that is nearly spherical
> body? Is there any term, a word or noun phrase, that describes and
> takes altogether our moon, Pluto, the spherical moons of Jupiter, and
> Saturn, Ceres, and other dwarf planents?
Hydrostatic equilibrium.
JMB
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Posted by SkySea on August 26, 2006, 4:45 pm
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> What is the proper term for a celestial body that is nearly spherical
> body? Is there any term, a word or noun phrase, that describes and
> takes altogether our moon, Pluto, the spherical moons of Jupiter, and
> Saturn, Ceres, and other dwarf planents?
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>Hydrostatic equilibrium.
There's also "oblate spheroid" for those planets like Earth that are a
bit flattened by rotation.
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Posted by Rick Evans on August 26, 2006, 7:46 pm
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> What is the proper term for a celestial body that is nearly spherical
> body? Is there any term, a word or noun phrase, that describes and
> takes altogether our moon, Pluto, the spherical moons of Jupiter, and
> Saturn, Ceres, and other dwarf planents?
Spheroid.
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Posted by Sjouke Burry on August 26, 2006, 8:38 pm
Please log in for more thread options John Freck wrote:
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> What is the proper term for a celestial body that is nearly spherical
> body? Is there any term, a word or noun phrase, that describes and
> takes altogether our moon, Pluto, the spherical moons of Jupiter, and
> Saturn, Ceres, and other dwarf planents?
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> John
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Planet family??
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> body? Is there any term, a word or noun phrase, that describes and
> takes altogether our moon, Pluto, the spherical moons of Jupiter, and
> Saturn, Ceres, and other dwarf planents?