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Sun is round or elliptical

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The Sun is almost, but not quite, perfectly round. Technically it is an oblate spheroid with an ellipticity of 9 times 10 to the minus 6, a tiny amount.

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