Comments on: Mysterious 3200 Phaethon – parent to the Geminids – revealed?

By: Here Comes the Meteor Shower Weekend – Weekends in Paradelle

Here Comes the Meteor Shower Weekend – Weekends in Paradelle — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:58:06 +0000

[…] happen annually before the time of the winter solstice as Earth crosses the orbital path of 3200 Phaethon. That mysterious object might be an asteroid or maybe it’s a burnt-out comet orbiting our […]

By: Donald Trump’s Presidency Will End On The Day Of A Comet, A Meteor Shower And A Total Eclipse Of The Sun – Daily Prophetic News

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:08:13 +0000

[…] suspicious about any of this—it’s a celestial story of a randomly bright-ish comet, a debris trail from a giant asteroid and the Saros cycle—but it’s nevertheless interesting to note that total solar eclipses are a […]

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 03:21:00 +0000

Is a trip planned there as we have done with other asteroids?

By: Ron Morgan

Ron Morgan — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:59:00 +0000

I’ve always wondered why we don’t pass through two
debris trails. Doesn’t a comet leave a trail going towards the sun and another one leaving?

By: chloridenewmexico

chloridenewmexico — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:39:00 +0000

Impressive video thanks for uploading : )

By: chloridenewmexico

chloridenewmexico — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:36:00 +0000

In reply to steveh42. Works for me ! I believe Phaeton 3200 is three miles wide . It would leave and impressive dent if it ever hit earth .

By: chloridenewmexico

chloridenewmexico — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:28:00 +0000

In reply to Jay Dillon. Awesome .

By: chloridenewmexico

chloridenewmexico — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:26:00 +0000

In reply to Cloak N. Dagr. LOL .

By: lauklejs

lauklejs — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:50:00 +0000

Might have been nice to know at what distance from the sun it crosses the ecliptic. It looks like it was crossing at the earth’s orbit–that is it’s 1.01 AU from the sun the other day but the earth is near aphelion also, so that could mean Phaeton is merely 10^6 miles ahead of or behind the earth in earth’s orbit?
hmm, Mercury’s orbit is precessing at something like 5000 sec/century (to my recollection) or in the neighborhood of 1 minute/century. And 3200P is much more elliptical than Mercury with much smaller perihelion so it should precess much faster. 1 minute/century =~ 600 million/360/60 at the earth’s orbit. So it seems to be precessing considerably more than 30,000 miles a century at the earth’s orbit. Hmm–I guess we probably have 25 centuries or so if it’s crossing behind. OTOH it could have been crossing earth’s orbit on a time scale of millennia .
Surely there must be another meteor shower when the earth passes through the spot where 3200P heads north of the ecliptic? Aries maybe?

By: Chef Shawk Parson III

Chef Shawk Parson III — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:51:00 +0000

In reply to Y.Whateley. the good yet somewhat bizarre thing about American art and political scenes is that they are so closely interconnected, which makes them somewhat surrealistically real ... but wait, is the rest of the world any different? i guess all cultures have always been like that throughout history! :)