Because GOD wants it TO.
Come on SMOD, I got $50 riding on this.
Ever underestimate the power of the YORP effect.
The spinning is probably caused by Global Warming. Oops! I meant to say Asteroid Warming.
I think I nailed it here. Where do I go to collect my Nobel Prize?
“... the rocky body is spinning faster and faster on its axis, shaving off around 4 milliseconds every year.”
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Of course you forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Ray, the sponges migrated about a foot-and-a-half.
An inside curve at the planet Earth. That would be one way to take care of the far-left’s “climate change” problem.
It’s due to all the windmills the lefties on that asteroid have put up so they don’t have to burn as much asteroid coal.
4 milliseconds per year? The logical conclusion is that its own gravity is pulling in loose particles near the asteroid, reducing the diameter ever so slightly. Like a figure skater pulling her arms in, conservation of momentum causes the body to spin faster and faster.
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I think Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson have an effect on that asteroid.
Theory? They spinning in they’re graves here are affecting the asteroid spinning and it’s orbit. (See DART)
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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It is probably a ‘captured’ asteroid that is jetting some gas like a ‘stuck’ maneuvering engine on a satellite. That too would lead to an accelerating spin.
The change of 4 milliseconds per year is rather puny. Mabe that is simply because the viewing angle changes as it move along its orbit.