50 Interesting Facts About Earth May 8, 2019
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Started by metmike - May 8, 2019, 1:21 p.m.

          Fact # 48                                                                        The planet has a waistline                                                                                                                   

The planet has a waistline

                                                                    

Mother Earth has a generous waistline: At the equator, the circumference of the globe is 24,901 miles (40,075 kilometers). Bonus fact: At the equator, you would weigh less than if standing at one of the poles.

Tomorrow, you'll be surprised to learn just how fast you are moving right now.                                                                                                                                                                    

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By metmike - May 8, 2019, 1:25 p.m.
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Would I Weigh Less at the Equator?


https://www.livescience.com/32504-would-i-weigh-less-at-the-equator.html


Amazingly, you would experience less gravity at Earth’s equator. An object's gravitational pull on another object depends upon both objects' masses and their mutual distance.

Earth has a bulge at the equator created by the planet’s rotation and a moving body’s tendency to continue in a straight line. (Sometimes this is misleadingly called "centrifugal force", but it's really just Newton’s laws of motion.) The planet's spare tire creates an uneven gravitational field.