The wobble has a period a fraction of the spin period, which would explain the strange X-ray pulse detection.

这种摆动随磁星旋转而变化，这就能够解释探测到的奇怪X射线脉冲。

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The collision also sped up the satellite's spin period from 5.6 seconds to 2.1 seconds, Kelso said.

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But BBC News Online science editor David Whitehouse says that if contact with Mir is lost for an extended period, it will start to spin, and it would become impossible for a rescue team to dock.

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Former Downing Street spin doctor Lance Price, who published his diaries of the period between 1997 and 2001 earlier this year, told the committee he had waited five years before publication and - unlike many anonymous Whitehall sources - his name was "on the dust jacket".

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