The unusual event, never seen before, might be a way small comets are “blown to bits” in the solar system.
If you were standing on the surface of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák nine years ago as it was getting closer to the sun, you might have been in for a shock. First, each day on the comet would have gotten drastically shorter over a period of weeks... [1792 chars]