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Gravitation answers to a description in Einstein's general theory in which spacetime itself is curved by the effects of gravity; the influence of gravity is such that planets tend towards an ideally spherical shape; although all known planets have a slight equatorial bulge (spherically oblate shape) due to their rotation.

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