Hi folks...
I'm looking high and low for a table of planetary oblateness factors. Does anyone know where one might be hiding?
...john...
Oblateness
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Oblateness
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Here?
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
It's not in a single table, but they list a "Flattening" parameter in each planet's entry (and some of the moons too I think?).
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
It's not in a single table, but they list a "Flattening" parameter in each planet's entry (and some of the moons too I think?).
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