How can the earth be at a 23.5° angle if it’s also close to a perfect sphere?

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How can there be an angle if earth is a sphere. A perfect ball doesn’t have a north does it.

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Answer 1

because the earth spins in a specific direction.

Also the earth isn’t a “perfect” sphere. It is 21km wider in one axis than the other. That is irrelevant to the definition that it can spin at an angle.

North is a magnetic field pole. Has nothing to do with the shape of the object.