I've realized that when working on gas giants in Celestia, especially fictional ones, that I'll need to include oblateness sooner or later.
How do I calculate a planet's oblateness, in layman's terms?
Oblateness
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Re: Oblateness
The formula for calculating the value is included in the Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblate_spheroid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblate_spheroid
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