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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5351. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Meteors

Scientific paper

One of the year's most prolific meteor showers, taking place in December. The radiant lies in the constellation Gemini. Uniquely, the parent body of the Geminids is not a comet but the asteroid (3200) Phaethon, discovered in 1983. The perihelion distance of Phaethon is a mere 0.14 AU. It may be that the Geminid meteor stream consists of particles that crumble away from the asteroid's surface unde...

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