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Re:The first known object to enter our solar system from dee... by raverbashing on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:40AM (#15747027)
An object that has 3 different dimensions suffers from Polhode motion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polhode

So maybe we can expect it to spin (and/or see it doesn't and speculate on the reasons for that)

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Re:The first known object to enter our solar system from dee... by wallace_f on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @08:13AM (#15747629)
To quench curiosity, I wonder if someone with more knowledge here could give the probability that this object is be spinning, stable, about its axis with smaller moment of inertia?
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