16 points | by gumby 2 days ago ago
4 comments
I had to rewrite the clickbait title on this article, which was the clearest explanation I could find. Because 1998 KY26 is moving in a way that can't be accounted just by gravitational theory, it has elicited a lot of absurd articles and posts
where's the motorbike?
> that rotates so quickly that a day on the rock ends almost as soon as it begins.
Who writes like this? This is not MSNBC! Please use proper units. It has a rotational period, which is 5.35 minutes
It's Gizmodo; it's been garbage for a quite while.
I had to rewrite the clickbait title on this article, which was the clearest explanation I could find. Because 1998 KY26 is moving in a way that can't be accounted just by gravitational theory, it has elicited a lot of absurd articles and posts
where's the motorbike?
> that rotates so quickly that a day on the rock ends almost as soon as it begins.
Who writes like this? This is not MSNBC! Please use proper units. It has a rotational period, which is 5.35 minutes
It's Gizmodo; it's been garbage for a quite while.