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Last Post 10/18/2011 10:50 AM by  Paulett Liewer
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10/18/2011 6:10 AM

    NICK (SRE)

    IS THESUN A PERFECT SPHERE?

    Tags: Sun's size and shape

    Paulett Liewer



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    10/18/2011 10:50 AM

    Hi Nick

    The Sun is pretty close to a perfect sphere. The best estimate is that the diameter measured at the equator is about 6 km bigger than the diameter measured pole-to-pole which is approximately 700,000 km. This is about 1 part in 120,000.

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