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Old 26-06-2008, 12:51 PM
mellotron
Plutonium hexafluoride

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The spin is caused by the combined gravitational forces of its of its neighbours during formation, which is effectively random, so you would also expect the distribution of spin directions to also be random.

How do we determine the spin direction of edge-on spiral galaxies? Sounds like it could be arbitrary.
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