(meteorobs) Are Meteor Showers Misunderstood?

George Gliba gliba at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Fri Jun 17 13:09:15 EDT 2005


On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:50:38AM -0500, Peter Brunone wrote:
> 
> 	I thought 3200 Phaeton was an asteroid, not a comet (and this is
> what made the Geminids unique).

   Some scientist think that 3200 Phaeton is an extinct (exhausted) comet.
Some other asteroids may be the same way. The CI and CM meteorites may be
from such parent bodies. Sometimes the distiction between comets and aster-
oids is not black and white.

GWG



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