Asked by: Robin Harden, Camberley
The absolute centre of a spinning object is stationary, but the way in which speed increases with distance from the centre depends on the nature of the object. For rigid objects like snooker balls, the speed of spinning - that is, the number of degrees moved through each second - is constant right through. But for fluid objects such as the Sun, that speed varies with distance in complex ways.
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