oblateness

IPA: ɑbɫˈeɪtnʌs

Examples of "oblateness" in Sentences

-- Discovery by Newton of the oblateness of the Earth.
Two facts are revealed by the oblateness of the earth: 1.
Discovery by Cassini of the oblateness of the planet Jupiter.
I had prepared a map of its track, in which an important error of the Berliner Jahrbuch (arising from neglect of the earth's oblateness) was corrected.
Newton's derivation of the precession from the gravitational action of the Moon and Sun raised three unresolved questions: What are the correct values for the mass of the Moon and the oblateness of the Earth?
If he looked carefully, he could just see that Saturn was not a perfect disk; on either side was something that no unaided human eye had ever seen before - the slight oblateness caused by the presence of the rings.
Applying the idea of centrifugal force to the earth considered as a rotating body, he perceived that it could not be a true sphere, and calculated its oblateness, obtaining 28 miles greater equatorial than polar diameter.