This gravity disparity is largely due to that equatorial bulge creating non-uniform distances from points on the planet's surface to center of the Earth, and to the fact that the Earth spins.

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Researchers analysed two decades of observations to confirm the discovery of planet HD 20794 d (Gabriel Perez Diaz, SMM (IAC)/PA) Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may ...

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Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six ...

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life. The planet is outside our solar system and has a mass six times greater than that of Earth.