Toroidal planet -- spins so fast it's not a sphere or an ellipsoid, but a torus,
like "J.P. Boyd's "Moonbow" story in Analog.

Yes, I know that toroidal planets have been shown to be only "meta stable" in
numerical simulations, and that any perturbation would cause the torus to clump
up and collapse into a ring of debris or something...so you would need some kind
of dynamic stabilization to keep it stable...probably not worth the trouble...

but it looks cool...

Modeled entirely in POVRAY.

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