{"id":15094654,"date":"2026-03-31T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/a-comet-may-have-flipped-its-spin-and-entered-into-a-death-spiral\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:43:08","slug":"a-comet-may-have-flipped-its-spin-and-entered-into-a-death-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/a-comet-may-have-flipped-its-spin-and-entered-into-a-death-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"A comet may have flipped its spin and entered into a death spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/033026_NO_comet_social_cf31bf.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>Gases jetting out of Comet 41P\/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kres\u00e1k may have caused it to reverse its spin in 2017, possibly leading to its eventual destruction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a 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