> "The Geminids are my favorite," he explains, "because they defy
> explanation."
>
> Most meteor showers come from comets, which spew ample meteoroids for a
> night of 'shooting stars.' The Geminids are different. The parent is not
> a comet but a weird rocky object named 3200 Phaethon that sheds very
> little dusty debris - not nearly enough to explain the Geminids.
To refine conventional wisdom, the Geminids shower (and its outbound
corollary)
of the many meteor showers we see each year, has a parent body that could
produce a meteorite. We preach the non-association of meteorite falls during
normal cometary showers, but we need to keep in mind this possible exception
should one of our clan ever ever be interviewed by Art Bell.
A meteorite fall during the Geminids is "statistically" more likely to be
related to the shower and parent body, even though statistically obscure. than
a
meteorite recovered during a cometary parent body meteor shower. That is to
say, if any meteor shower parent body could produce debris falling to us as a
meteorite this is the shower whose parent body: 3200 Phaethon
Elton
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