Rare blue asteroid responsible for Geminid meteor shower reveals itself during fly-by
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 03:50
in Astronomy & Space
Blue asteroids are rare, and blue comets are almost unheard of. An international team led by Teddy Kareta, a graduate student at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, investigated (3200) Phaethon, a bizarre asteroid that sometimes behaves like a comet, and found it even more enigmatic than previously thought.