Phaeton

Parker Solar Probe Makes a Surprising Discovery About the Source of the Geminid Meteor Shower

NASA's Parker Solar Probe happened to follow a trajectory that brought it close to a cloud of gas and dust…

2 years ago

Asteroid Phaethon breaks all the rules. It acts like a comet, it supplies particles to a meteor shower. Oh, and it’s blue

A team of astronomers recently observed Phaeton, a Near-Earth Object (NEO) that behaves like both an asteroid and a comet

6 years ago


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