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mkirklions
on May 22, 2018
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We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
But wont millions of years of chaotic rotation cause a large body to become round?
Thousands of years this sounds realistic, but remember the scale of things is in billions of years.
lainga
on May 22, 2018
I believe the chaotic rotation would stop as soon as the body became round, to conserve angular momentum.
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Thousands of years this sounds realistic, but remember the scale of things is in billions of years.