Friday, November 24, 2017

ice boom from space



"3200 Phaethon (/ˈfeɪ.əθɒn/ FAY-ə-thon, sometimes incorrectly spelled Phaeton), provisional designation 1983 TB, is an Apollo asteroid with an unusual orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid (though there are several unnamed asteroids, including three numbered ones, with smaller perihelia, e.g. (137924) 2000 BD19).[2]

 For this reason, it was named after the Greek myth of Phaëton, son of the sun god Helios.

It is 5.1 ± 0.2 km (3.17 ± 0.12 mi) in mean diameter.

Phaethon is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA)

Shortly after its discovery, Fred Whipple observed that the "orbital elements of 1983 TB shown on IAUC 3879 are virtually coincident with the mean orbital elements of 19 Geminid meteors photographed with the super-Schmidt meteor cameras".

In other words, Phaethon is the long-sought parent body of the Geminids meteor shower of mid-December."

HELIOLATER

and the reported Ice booms around the USA in recent days, are parts of Phaethon 3200

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