Reply to post: Re: Interesting ... but

It's big, it's blue, and it'll be raining down on you – it's 3200 Phaethon

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Re: Interesting ... but

Orbit is 523.5 days. Once a year we cross where its orbit has crossed Earth's orbit and thus the pre-existing trail of debris. That's why the Geminids meteor shower was a mystery till the object was spotted, no known comet parent for them. Geminids were first documented in 1862 and 3200 Phaethon in 1983.

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