What is the exact shape of Earth? What is the shape of the planets near Earth, Mercury , Venus and Mars? Are the shapes different?

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mariliatavares

What is the exact shape of Earth?
What is the shape of the planets near Earth, Mercury , Venus and Mars?

Are the shapes different?

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Ashcan

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It is an oblate sphere.

Which means it is slightly flatter at the poles, and fatter at the Equator.

All the planets are the same due to the suns Gravitaional pull.

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