Asteroid 3200 Phaethon, a space oddity, is even stranger than astronomers thought, NASA researchers said on Tuesday.
found the tail is actually made of sodium gas.
Based on the study of Phaethon, Zhang and other scientists wonder whether some comets may not actually be comets. There may have been a disruptive event a few thousand years ago that caused Phaethon to eject the material making up the Geminid debris stream, Zhang's team said.
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