Originally posted by HowardRoark
Are you sure about that? I thnk that you have that backward. It seems to me that the greatest amount of angular momentum would be closest the the
equator.
Yep, mass in equator has biggest angular momentum, or actually it's just mass which is farthest away from rotation axis.
Like fact that sun has 99% of solar system's mass but only 1% percent of its angular momentum. (because all that mass, even if its huge compared to
other masses in solar system, is so close to solar system's rotation axis)