<p>In World Building I asked a question about the climate of an hypothetical planet.</p>
<p><a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/159199/climate-in-an-hypothetical-planet#comment499721_159199">There</a> <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/69877/vogon-poet">Vogon poet</a> said that</p>
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<p>Everyone above 10° latitude will be in permanent drought</p>
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<p>Considering that there were no Milankovitch cycles (with a year of exactly 31104000 seconds (360 Earth days) and a day of exactly 86400 seconds (24 hours) and a circular orbit with a distance between the surface of Earth and the Sun's surface equal to the harmonic mean of the current distance), Earth was an oblate spheroid (with the same mass) with a perfectly smooth surface (only allowing for moderate variance due to fauna, flora and civilisation), there were only 2 bodies in the universe Earth and a Sun (a perfect ball with smooth surface and uniform density with the same amount of radiation).</p>
<p><strong>What would be the least equatorial bulge consistent with modest amounts of water in polar regions?</strong></p>

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Thank you earnestly for the help Fred.
George Ntoulos
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Do you think I should define polar regions like say above (and below) 80° or 85° Latitude (North and South)
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Least equatorial ( and tidal) bulge consistent with modest amounts of water in polar regions
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# Least equatorial ( and tidal) bulge consistent with modest amounts of water in polar regions

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-11-17)

In World Building I asked a question about the climate of an hypothetical planet.

[There](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/159199/climate-in-an-hypothetical-planet#comment499721_159199) [Vogon poet](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/69877/vogon-poet) said that

> Everyone above 10° latitude will be in permanent drought

Considering that there were no Milankovitch cycles (with a year of exactly 31104000 seconds (360 Earth days) and a day of exactly 86400 seconds (24 hours) and a circular orbit with a distance between the surface of Earth and the Sun's surface equal to the harmonic mean of the current distance), Earth was an oblate spheroid (with the same mass) with a perfectly smooth surface (only allowing for moderate variance due to fauna, flora and civilisation), there were only 2 bodies in the universe Earth and a Sun (a perfect ball with smooth surface and uniform density with the same amount of radiation).

**What would be the least equatorial bulge consistent with modest amounts of water in polar regions?**

**Tags:** geology, geophysics, plate-tectonics, models, geodynamics

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thank you earnestly for the help Fred.  
> **username_0**: Do you think I should define polar regions like say above (and below) 80° or 85° Latitude (North and South)  

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