alt Hacker NewsRemember the spontaneously flipping spinning hammer on the ISS?
...rotation for sufficiently non-spherical(-cow) objects in free fall is kinda weird.
Remember the spontaneously flipping spinning hammer on the ISS?
...rotation for sufficiently non-spherical(-cow) objects in free fall is kinda weird.
The ellipsoid can rotate around its minor axis (more stable), around its major axis (also stable) or around its medium axis (unstable, the direction of the axis will “flip”). The three axes go through the center.