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Given a perfectly spherical and homogeneous earth, the horizontal
component of the centrifugal force would move earth stuff toward the
equator, reshaping the earth's profile so that the normal force of
rigidity can now, by itself, completely cancel both the gravitational
and centrifugal forces.