Geminid meteors may be 10 times older than thought, simulations of oddball asteroid Phaethon suggest

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The comet-like asteroid Phaethon likely lobbed thousands of rocky fragments toward Earth while rapidly spinning around the sun 18,000 years ago, new research suggests ― and it may fling some more soon.

Geminid meteors may be 10 times older than thought, simulations of oddball asteroid Phaethon suggest : Read more

 

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If a spinning body sheds mass, shouldn't conservation of angular momentum cause it to spin faster, rather than slowing down?