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NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

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The object is known as Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2024 PT5 (or PT5 ... Subsequent observations of the object characterized its rotation and revealed it has a rocky, silicate-rich composition. That ...

That could mean the neutron star itself is still rotating hundreds of times a second, but its overall magnetic field—similar to the one that encircles the Earth—is just much slower in behavior.