This asteroid is accelerating through space – scientists don’t know why

Whoosh! (Picture: Metro)An oddball object is racing through the solar system in a way science is struggling to explain.
Asteroids, the crumbs of the early solar system, usually fly at a steady pace thanks to invisible forces like gravity and the sun’s radiation.
Not KY26. Sometimes called 1998 KY26 for the year it was first spotted, this 36-foot-wide lump is accelerating in a way space rocks shouldn’t. Models of KY26 (Picture: Toni Santana-Ros et al/Nrco0e/Wikimedia Commons)Some scientists