Article 4C1JG Wildly Spinning Asteroid Caught In the Throes of Self-Destruction

Wildly Spinning Asteroid Caught In the Throes of Self-Destruction

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George Dvorsky
from Gizmodo on (#4C1JG)
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With its long, bright tail, this object bears an uncanny resemblance to a comet, but it's actually an active asteroid. New observations suggest the asteroid is spinning so quickly that it's starting to break down and crumble, in what is a relatively rare cosmological phenomenon.

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