A 1.6-Mile Asteroid Is Spotted Spinning So Fast It Challenges What We Know

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware at 14 Oct, 15:39 UTC

Astronomers using fresh data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have uncovered an asteroid that defies usual planetary physics, spinning at a speed so fast it should technically be tearing itself apart, but isn't. Now, most large asteroids are not solid, single boulders. Instead, they are typically…