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Re: Pear shaped Earth

Subject: Re: Pear shaped Earth
From: Peter Fogg (ffive@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 02:28:29 EDT

David Weilacher wrote:

> Can anyone give me a numerical representation of the shape of earth? I'm
> thinking something like the length of a line of latitude for each 10 degrees
> north and south of the equator.

I'm told that Meridional Distances do indicate this:

10 d lat 597.11
20 1194.58
30 1792.72
40 2391.75
50 2991.82
60 3592.91
70 4194.91
80 4797.59
90 5400.63

so, if I've understood correctly, a degree at 10d of lat.is 59.71 nm, and a
degree at 90d of lat. is 60.007 nm.



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