Oort cloud comets may spin themselves to death

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Oort cloud comets may spin themselves to death
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“When they come toward the sun, they heat up, all hell breaks loose, and they fall apart.”

“These things are stable out there in the Oort cloud where nothing ever happens. When they come toward the sun, they heat up, all hell breaks loose, and they fall apart,” Jewitt says.

“The disintegrations are really hard to observe because they’re unpredictable, and they happen quickly,” Jewitt says. “Basically, being a small nucleus near the sun causes you to die,” Jewitt says. “The question is, why?” “It just spins faster and faster, until it doesn’t have enough tensile strength to hold together,” Jewitt says. “I’m pretty sure that’s what’s happening.”

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