What is the circumferance of the earth?

Answer 1

The Earth is an oblate ellipsoid-a sphere slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator. The distance around the Earth at the equator is 24,902 miles (40,075 kilometers). The distance around the Earth through the poles is 24,860 miles (40,008 kilometers).

Answer 2

The diameter of Jupiter is 142,984 KM. Multiply this by pi, which is approximately 3.1412.

So the equatorial circumference of Jupiter is approximately 449,141 KM. Jupiter spins rapidly, and this causes some flattening.

Answer 3

About 40,000 km. The exact answer varies, depending on whether you go over the poles, or around the equator.

About 40,000 km. The exact answer varies, depending on whether you go over the poles, or around the equator.

About 40,000 km. The exact answer varies, depending on whether you go over the poles, or around the equator.

About 40,000 km. The exact answer varies, depending on whether you go over the poles, or around the equator.

Answer 4

Being that Saturn is a three dimensional object it depends on where you measure the circumference. Saturn is very oblate, meaning squashed as it spins so you would get different values if you measured around the equator or around the poles. Also you'd have to define the radius of saturn, which is somewhat hard to do considering it doesn't have a solid surface. Most astronomers use the radius as where the pressure equals 1 bar. Based on that info you can do the 30 seconds of research to look up the necessary values and plug it into a calculator.

Answer 5

The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 kilometers).

But, if you measure the earth through the poles the circumference is a bit shorter - 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km). Thus the Earth's spin makes it a bit wider than it is tall, giving it a slight bulge at the equator. This shape is known as an ellipsoid or more properly, geoid (earth-shaped).

Answer 6

The radius of the earth is about 4000 miles. There are 5280 feet per mile, or 21 million feet to the center of the earth. The circumference of a circle is 2pi(r), or for the earth, 132,700,000 feet. (133 million feet).

Answer 7

The circumference of the planet earth is 24,896 square miles. This was taught to me and us Muslims by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, The Most Honnorable Elijah Muhammad, and Allah (God) who came in the person of Master Farad Muhammad.

Answer 8

The radius of the Earth can be calculated with a method that was discovered by Eratosthenes of Cyrene in the 3rd century BC. The method as an equation is written as: 360 degrees/a = circumference/arc length where a is equal to an arc length.

Answer 9

At the Equator 24901.46 miles. Or at the Poles, 24,859.82 miles

or

Equatorial circumference: 40 075,017 km

Meridional circumference: 40 008 km

Answer 10

One way is to multiply earth's radius by 2 pi. Earth's radius is 6378 km. That multiplied by 2 pi is 40,074 km.

Another way is to measure the distance around at the equator.

A third way is to measure the distance between two points that are due north and south of each other. Use a protractor to measure the angle of elevation of the north star. Use geometry and trigonometry to calculate the number of degrees of circumference in your measurement and use ratios to extrapolate that to the circumference of the earth.

A Greek mathematician estimated the earth's circumference to within about 1/4 percent accuracy over 2200 years ago.