All About Space

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If gravity pulled towards the centre of the planetary disc, rain, snow and other forms of precipitat­ion would gravitate towards the North Pole. Only at the centre of the disc would this weather behave as we know it on our spherical Earth – falling straight down. The further from the pole you travel, the crazier and more horizontal the precipitat­ion would be. Water would also flow towards the North Pole, and vast, bulging oceans would collect at the centre of the planet, leaving practicall­y no water at the edges.

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