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Mesklin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | Had the discovery held up, the object would have been one of the very first (Click link for more info and facts about extrasolar planets) extrasolar planets to be discovered, decades before the first flurry of well-established discoveries around the turn of the third millennium. |
| | As a result of this extremely large rate of spin, Mesklin is not even slightly spherical; it has a large (Click link for more info and facts about equatorial bulge) equatorial bulge. |
| | Mesklin's equatorial diameter is 48,000 miles, while from pole-to-pole along its axis of rotation it is 19,740 miles. |
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