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rocky1138 on June 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Barium-144 Nucleus Is Surprisingly Pear Shaped

Same, but it's a poor representation of the shape.

A better example is http://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-just-discovered-a-new...

B1FF_PSUVM on June 28, 2016 [–]

Also, saying that "things went pear shaped" has a lot more patina than saying "things went egg shaped".

(This is the crowd that brought us 'quarks' - notorious lack of 'gravitas' there ...)

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