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|+THE EARTH. |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Volume, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|1.000 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Mass (Sun's = 1), |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|0.0000028173 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Density (water = 1), |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|5.6747 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Diameter, mean, in miles, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|7916 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Diameter— — — polar, in miles, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|7898 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Diameter— — — equatorial, in miles, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|7924 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Circumference in miles, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|25,000 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|In one second of time bodies fall, latitude of London, in feet, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|16.835 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Centrifugal force at equator (gravity = 1), |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|0.00346 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Times rotation requires to be increased to neutralise gravity at equator, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|17 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Period of rotation in sidereal hours, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|24 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Length of a mean solar day in sidereal time, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|24h. 3m.- 56s..55 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Length of a— — — sidereal day in mean solar time, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|23h. 56m. 4s.09 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Daily acceleration of sidereal time in mean solar time, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|3m. 55s..09 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Greatest difference between the mean and apparent solar time, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|16m. 16s. |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Greatest height of mountains in miles, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|5 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Axis of the poles (axis of diameter of equator = 305), |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|304 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Greatest depth of ocean in miles, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|9 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Mean distance from the Sun (Earth's radius = 1), |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|23,984 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Mean distance from the Sun— — — in miles, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|95,000,000 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Distance at perihelion (mean distance = 1), |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|.9832 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|distance at— — — aphelion (mean distance = 1), . |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|1.0168 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Eccentricity (semi-major axis = 1), |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|0.016783568 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Sidereal revolution in mean solar days. |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|365d. 6h. 9m. 9s..6 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Anomalistic revolution in mean solar days. |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|365d. 6h. 13m. 49s. |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Tropical revolution in mean solar days, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|365d. 5h. 48m. 49s..7 |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Interval between vernal and autumnal equinoxes, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|186d. 11h. 34m. |- |style="vertical-align:top;"|Interval between autumnal and vernal equinoxes, |style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right;"|178d. 18h. 7m. |}

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