Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.”
Planetary Defense: Asteroid Findings From Specks of Space Dust Could Save Earth
Car-sized asteroid will pass extremely close to Earth tonight