(urth) Shape of the Whorl

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 18:01:22 PST 2009


>I think the Whorl has to be close to perfect cylinder.
>If not, it would wobble as it spins.

Only if the asteroid were of uniform density on all sides which is unlikely. 
The engineering permutations to cause an asteroid of undefined dimensions 
and mass to spin uniformly are infinite.

J 




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