The strange mystery of asteroid Phaethon’s comet-like tail may have just been solved
The asteroid Phaethon’s tail is not made of dust after all, scientists have discovered. Astronomers observing the strange “rock comet” hybrid Phaethon as it passed the sun have found a surprise that could upend 14 years of thinking about the weird asteroid. The asteroid Phaethon, which gives us the Geminid meteor shower every year and …
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