Saturn’s Strange Hexagon – In Living Color!

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17. No, sorry if I'm unclear. I'm saying all the spurts contain dye,

but once the sides of the circle are pushed in, they remain pushed – it would take a countering spurt from inside the circle to push them back to where they were. So the pushed-in shape remains in place as the whole thing rotates.

If there are no more spurts, I'd expect that eventually, centrifugal force would smooth everything out as the heaviest elements find their way outward, leaving the less-heavy elements more toward the center. But the point is, pushing the sides in to make the hexagon seems to have resulted in the first place because spurts occurred at intervals that happened to result in 6 sides.

If instead, the spurts occurred exactly 5 times per rotation, you should end up with a more pentagonal shape.