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Curious George
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For an experimental test see: Liquid marbles http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001Natur.411..924A

(paywall http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v411/n6840/full/411924a0.html)

For a paper in General Relativity see: Accurate simulations of the dynamical bar-mode instability in full general relativity http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PhRvD..75d4023B

Basically once you start increasing rotation the pancake will become unstable and will make a transition to a rotating bar (dumbbell).

Anyway I think that nobody ever saw the bar actually breaking into 2 pieces. Typically you loose matter from the external regions, redistribute angular momentum and go back to axisymmetry.

Cheers

For an experimental test see: Liquid marbles http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001Natur.411..924A

For a paper in General Relativity see: Accurate simulations of the dynamical bar-mode instability in full general relativity http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PhRvD..75d4023B

Basically once you start increasing rotation the pancake will become unstable and will make a transition to a rotating bar (dumbbell).

Anyway I think that nobody ever saw the bar actually breaking into 2 pieces. Typically you loose matter from the external regions, redistribute angular momentum and go back to axisymmetry.

Cheers

For an experimental test see: Liquid marbles http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001Natur.411..924A

(paywall http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v411/n6840/full/411924a0.html)

For a paper in General Relativity see: Accurate simulations of the dynamical bar-mode instability in full general relativity http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PhRvD..75d4023B

Basically once you start increasing rotation the pancake will become unstable and will make a transition to a rotating bar (dumbbell).

Anyway I think that nobody ever saw the bar actually breaking into 2 pieces. Typically you loose matter from the external regions, redistribute angular momentum and go back to axisymmetry.

Cheers

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Curious George
Curious George
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For an experimental test see: Liquid marbles http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001Natur.411..924A

For a paper in General Relativity see: Accurate simulations of the dynamical bar-mode instability in full general relativity http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PhRvD..75d4023B

Basically once you start increasing rotation the pancake will become unstable and will make a transition to a rotating bar (dumbbell).

Anyway I think that nobody ever saw the bar actually breaking into 2 pieces. Typically you loose matter from the external regions, redistribute angular momentum and go back to axisymmetry.

Cheers