Mystery As Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak Appears To Have Changed Its Direction Of Rotation

This Tiny Comet Pulled Off a First-of-Its-Kind Spin Flip

A fresh analysis of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák observations suggests it abruptly reversed its spin after its last Earth flyby—an extreme and unprecedented change.

Mystery As Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak Appears To Have Changed Its Direction Of Rotation

The comet has been discovered three times in the last few centuries. Recently, it's started acting weird.

How a Comet Completely Reversed Its Rotation Hubble Reveals a Comet That Defied Physics Why Comet 41P Might Not Survive the 2030s – Meson Stars

This Comet Stopped Spinning. Then It Started Rotating Backward.

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…