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byquenda ( 644621 ) writes:
nearly half a mile wide and spinning once every 1.88 minutes -- the fastest known rotation for an object of its size.
May I present this pulsar [wikipedia.org]
spinning at 42,981 revolutions per minute , with radius "under 16 km", so I assume somewhat larger than 500m.
bygtall ( 79522 ) writes:
""This is now the fastest-spinning asteroid that we know of, larger than 500 meters,"
Please point out the word you do not understand. Hint: It spells "asteroid".
bytsqr ( 808554 ) writes:
""This is now the fastest-spinning asteroid that we know of, larger than 500 meters,"
Please point out the word you do not understand. Hint: It spells "asteroid".
That's a quote from TFA in TFS. BeauHD's opening paragraph in TFS is where the word "object" is inappropriately used. Odd, because as we all know, screwups by Slashdot editors are vanishingly rare.
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