Assertion: land | /r/HasProperty | an oblate spheroid
Facets:
value: approximately
type: DEGREE
value: to second order
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: To second order, Earth is approximately an oblate spheroid, whose equatorial diameter is 43 kilometres (27 mi) larger than the pole-to-pole diameter, although the variation is less than 1% of the average radius of the Earth.