Rotor
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A helicopter twin-bladed main rotor, mounted on a pylon (Robinson R44). The tail rotor is just a striped blur in this picture
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A rotor is a rotating part of a machine, as in a motor, a pump or a helicopter. The part of the machine that does not rotate is called the stator.
Rotor is also the name of the 8 km. long space statsion orbiting the terrestrial moon Erythro, which arbits the planet Mega in Isaas Asimov's 1989, 1990 science fiction novel Nemesis.
References
- Isaac Asimov. 1889, 1990. Nemesis Doubleday. ISBN 0553286285.
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Rotor" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor November 30, 2003
