Jacobi ellipsoid
Shape taken by a self-gravitating fluid body rotating at constant velocity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Jacobi ellipsoid is a triaxial (i.e. scalene) ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium which arises when a self-gravitating, fluid body of uniform density rotates with a constant angular velocity. It is named after the German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.[1]