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== Earth Information ==

== Secular Earth Information ==

The '''Earth''' is the third planet from the Sun. It is (24,800 miles) 40,008 kilometers in diameter, pole to pole and slightly larger around the equator. [[http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzcircumference.htm]] The reason its metric diameter is so close to the "round number" of 40,000 is that the French defined the [[kilometer]] as 1/10,000th the distance from the equator to the [[North Pole]].  

The '''Earth''' is the third planet from the Sun. It is (24,800 miles) 40,008 kilometers in diameter, pole to pole and slightly larger around the equator. [[http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzcircumference.htm]] The reason its metric diameter is so close to the "round number" of 40,000 is that the French defined the [[kilometer]] as 1/10,000th the distance from the equator to the [[North Pole]].