https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/by-the-numbers/
The Earth's Equatorial circumference is 40,075 km as opposed to the nonsensical value given in that website.
When the editors at Wikipedia decided to alter the rotation period of the Earth to 24 hours, they forgot to adjust the Equatorial rotation velocities to suit that fact-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
The Earth's Equatorial diameter is 40,075 km so divided into 360 degrees, one degree of geographical separation at the Equator is 111.32 km and also represents 4 minutes clock time. It means that the equatorial rotation velocity is 1669.8 km/hr for each
15 degrees of rotation and the entire 40,075 km in 24 hours.
Any person who insists the planet's circumference is 40,032 km, even if it is NASA, is insulting themselves and makes a mockery of geographical coordinates based on the inviolate relationship between the 24 hour and Lat/Long systems much less the GPS
framework.
It is clear that academic self-regulation doesn't work no more than it does in the political or financial sectors, however, information is more valuable than currency or social power in the scheme of things. It presents a massive but not an
insurmountable difficulty for humanity because neither the noisy cheerleaders nor the petty academics are involved in the restoring solar system research and Earth sciences back to a stable foundation. The crossover from planetary dynamics to Earth
sciences is in an awful condition considering the NASA measurement for the Earth's circumference in the website above is unrepeatable.
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