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To: RightWhale

I am thinking of it’s mass in motion, not solar wind. If it started rotating off balance, it would not be rotating around it’s moment of inertia, that means it would be spinning off balance with no correction by retro firing.

That would make the orbit unstable, and if not attempting to keep speed with rotation of the Earth, it would just float and tumble until it got caught in gravity, and with no retro firing to correct orbit, it will fall down instead of fall in a straight line

fall down, go boom!


51 posted on 02/09/2008 7:51:18 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: RaceBannon

It is still somewhat interesting to see pre-newtonian physics on FR. There are no forces whatsoever beyond gravity that would make the orbit wobble, although precession is inevitable and easily predictable whether the object is rotating about three axes or not.


54 posted on 02/09/2008 10:21:05 AM PST by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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