This Comet Stopped Spinning. Then It Started Rotating Backward.

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This Comet Stopped Spinning. Then It Started Rotating Backward.

By The New York Times

If you were standing on the surface of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák nine years ago as it was getting closer to the sun, you might have been in for a shock. First, each day on the comet would have gotten drastically shorter over a period of weeks ...Read more