- A
spheroid, also
known as an
ellipsoid of
revolution or
rotational ellipsoid, is a
quadric surface obtained by
rotating an
ellipse about one of its prin****l...
- A
Maclaurin spheroid is an
oblate spheroid which arises when a self-gravitating
fluid body of
uniform density rotates with a
constant angular velocity...
-
Spheroidal weathering is a form of
chemical weathering that
affects jointed bedrock and
results in the
formation of
concentric or
spherical layers of highly...
-
Prolate spheroidal coordinates are a three-dimensional
orthogonal coordinate system that
results from
rotating the two-dimensional
elliptic coordinate...
-
Oblate spheroidal coordinates are a three-dimensional
orthogonal coordinate system that
results from
rotating the two-dimensional
elliptic coordinate system...
- The
Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal (also
known as
Andromeda VI or Peg dSph for short) is a
dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.7
million light-years away in the...
- 0° The
equator is a
circle of
latitude that
divides a
spheroid, such as Earth, into the
Northern and
Southern hemispheres. On Earth, the
Equator is an...
- Center), or in a
spheroidal galactic bulge around the
galactic core. However, some
stars inhabit a
spheroidal halo or
galactic spheroid, a type of galactic...
- A
dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) is a term in
astronomy applied to small, low-luminosity
galaxies with very
little dust and an
older stellar po****tion...
- Hammerscale, also
written hammer scale, is a
flaky or
spheroidal byproduct of the iron
forging process (for
modern equivalent, see mill scale). Hammerscale...
