hours of sending the email, the letter had been leaked – Jerry Colangelo was Hinkie’s strong suspicion, sources said – to a media outlet.

Hinkie was mortified to see his words in the public arena, never expecting that a private correspondence to his superiors would become public and turn into something of a mocked manifesto. He wanted to tell his staff of his decision on late Wednesday or Thursday morning, once he talked with ownership about how his departure would be made public.

Hinkie never had the chance. The news was out, and Hinkie had lost control of his departure. His staff learned of his resignation in the news.

From the moment Colangelo arrived on the job in December, Hinkie was doomed – no matter how hard Hinkie tried to workwhilst the fastest run is only bound because of the internal energy of the clusters. The central speed would be obtained by two point masses starting from rest at an initial separation of 4 times the maximum radius of one of the clusters. In all three cases the general scenario is the same. The merger follows a path similar to the purely collisionless case until maximum compression is reached. The two gas spheres collide and form a pancake like structure about the centre of mass of the system, with the short axis aligned with the collision direction. The dark matter component continues on, leaving its original gas behind. At this point the gas is at rest around the centre of mass of the system, whilst the collisionless material