Phaethon

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The debris shed by 3200 Phaethon as it crashes into Earth's upper atmosphere produces the meteors.

However, the Geminids are different because they come from the 32000 Phaethon asteroid.

Unlike most other meteor showers, the Geminids are not associated with a comet but with an asteroid: 3200 Phaethon. The asteroid takes about 1.4 years to orbit the Sun.

First observed in the 1800s, themeteor shower originates from an object called Phaethon, named after Greek god Apollo's son.

"Phaethon orbits the sun every 17 months or so a leaving a trail of debris behind it," Cox added.

The Geminid meteor shower is caused by a 3-mile-wide asteroid called 3200 Phaethon which does a reasonably close flyby of Earth every 523 days.

PAGASA explained that the Geminids shower is significantly different from other meteor showers as it does not originate from a comet but from an asteroid, the 3200 Phaethon.

The Geminids is different from other meteor showers: 'The Geminids meteors do not originate from a comet, they come from an asteroid (3200 Phaethon).

Although parent to one of the better-known meteor streams, asteroid 3200 Phaethon remains a bit of a mystery object.

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White-Tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus (Daudin, 1802) (Hereinafter "WTTB") is the species more commonly seen in association with sub-surface predators (Spear and Ainley, 2005).

In the second, Ignition & Eclipse, narrated by Aimee-Ffion Edwards, the foolhardy Phaethon insists on driving his father Phoebus's fiery chariot - the sun - to prove he's his divine son.

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