The strange asteroid responsible for Earth's annual shower of Geminid meteors just got even more peculiar.
that sublimates when the asteroid approaches the Sun. The next step was to prove it.
The team combed through data collected by these spacecraft and found the tail appeared during 18 of Phaethon's close approaches to the Sun between 1997 and 2022.
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