Labels:text | screenshot | display | software | number | computer icon | font | multimedia software OCR: Wordworth 3.1 @ 1994 Digita International 9:45 PM By DIT 08-02-95 Book Text Shannon Book |14 pt a IM A Guide to Astronomy Chapter One - The Earth 00 The Earth is a sphere, slightly flattened at the poles - a shape called an oblate ======- spheroid. The diameter at the pole is 127, 414 km and it is 43 km greater at the equator. For a sphere of this size it is comparatively smooth and is not much tougher than a billiard ball. The highest mountain, Mt. Everest, is less than 10 km above sea level and the deepest ocean is only slightly more than 10 km deep. Figure 6-5 Headers A From Left: 7.77 in From Top: 0.50 in Column 1 Page 1 V 90% Page 1 + +