Reply to post: Re: Potato Rule doesn't apply

Holy planetesimal formation, Batman! Ultima Thule's no snowman – it's a friggin' pancake

eldakka

Re: Potato Rule doesn't apply

But if they spin fast enough (like Saturn) they start to bulge out at the equator and stop being spherical.

They don't have to spin very fast, Earth technically is not a sphere either, it is an oblate spheriod [citation - wikipedia] - it bulges at the equator.

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