Starship Asterisk*

I take it back, having the spin axis at the point of connection would not minimize the tension at the connection, because tension would seem to be at a maximum at the axis. So perhaps we are indeed looking at an object which is pulling itself apart, or has frozen at a point in the process of pulling...

Interesting that the new spin axis now appears to virtually coincide with the connection between the two lobes. Since that would minimize tension at the connection for a given rate of spin, might we guess that two-component objects Ultima Thule's size suffer enough 'big' collisions to spin them up t...