Also the second largest impact structure on Earth, the 1.85 billion years old Sudbury crater in Canada, hosts world-class mineral deposits - in this case nickel-rich minerals that were melted and concentrated by the extreme heating caused by the impact.
The circumference of Earth at the equator is about 24,902 miles (40,075 km), but from pole-to-pole â the meridional circumference â Earth is only 24,860 miles (40,008 km) around. This shape, caused by the flattening at the poles, is called an oblate spheroid.
How Large is the Earth Compared to the Universe? or, Using the Earth to build a Road to Pluto. Let's start with how big the Earth is. Well, the average diameter of the Earth is 7926 miles, which gives it a radius of 3963 miles and a volume of 261 billion cubic miles of Earth earth (see arithmetic in the last paragraph).