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What happens to saturn shape because it spins fast?

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Saturn is a gassy planet which makes it much easier that its shape is changing in accordance to its spinning speed. Since Saturn is spinning relatively fast, the rounded shape that it is expected to have, actually becomes an oblate spheroid, which pretty much means that its poles are pressing towards the center, while the equatorial part expands, thus giving it an ecliptic shape.

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