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...earth is round, all right-but not round like a bourgeois ball; it has a more complicated, more Russian shape. So a Soviet scientist announced recently. Since 1940, said Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Izotov, he and fellow Russian geodesists have painstakingly remeasured significant areas of the earth. Their measurements make expanding Russia bigger than ever...
...measurements the earth's radius at the equator is 3,963⅓-miles. Too small, said Izotov; he calculated that in its thickest section the radius is about ½ mile more. The Izotov globe is flattened slightly not only at the poles, like previous globes, but at the equator. Thus the earth, like every ellipsoid, has three axes instead of two and must rotate with a slightly seasick motion...
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