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Eccentricity

Eccentricity
is an option for SpheroidalDistance which specifies the eccentricity of the ellipsoid in the spheroidal model.

To use Eccentricity, you first need to load the Geodesy Package using Needs["Geodesy`"].

Eccentricity->v specifies that the eccentricity of spheroidal model is the number v.