Astronomers have discovered what they say is the fastest rotating
object in the Solar System for its size.
The object is called 2003 EL61 and rotates once every 3.9 hours.
Rather than being spherical like a planet, the object has a shape
much like a squashed rugby ball, its discoverers told a Cambridge meeting.
2003 EL61 is located in the Kuiper belt - a vast, distant region of
the Solar System that contains the planet Pluto and other ice-rock bodies.
"It's by far the record," said David Rabinowitz, of the department of
astronomy at Yale University, US.
"For an object almost the size of Pluto, this has very dramatic consequences."
Full article at <<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4230056.stm>>.
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