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The rotational energy of a macroscopic body is easily populated
with far more than its "thermal share" of energy and it usually
does not readily trade that energy back and forth with other
internal modes of energy storage. That is, it is not subject to
"thermalization" on reasonable time scales. Thus the energy may
be internal, but it is not thermal. Consider a satellite.