Prolate Spheroid

A Spheroid which is ``pointy'' instead of ``squashed,'' i.e., one for which the polar radius is greater thanthe equatorial radius , so . A prolate spheroid has Cartesian equations

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			(6)

References

Beyer, W. H. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 131, 1987.

• Lunule
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