Talk:3200 Phaethon

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Verneshot

Could this be an object launched from earth by a verneshot (recent theory concerning mass extinctions)? -David L. Battle

No. If Verneshots exist, they result in rocks with suborbital trajectories (i.e. the rocks are orbiting Earth and crashing bacxk again very soon afterward). Phaethon is not in orbit around the Earth, it's orbiting the Sun on its own independent path, millions of miles away from Earth. There's no way a volcano could fire a rock into that kind of orbit. The Singing Badger 22:07, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

References

• Li, Jing; Jewitt, David (2013). "Recurrent Perihelion Activity in (3200) Phaethon". The Astronomical Journal. 145 (6): 154. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/145/6/154.
• . arXiv:1306.3741. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Jewitt, Jing (2010). "Activity in Geminid Parent (3200) Phaethon". American Astronomical Society. 42: 1058. Bibcode:2010DPS....42.1326L. {{cite journal}}: More than one of |author1= and |last= specified (help)
• Licandro, J.; Campins, H.; Mothé-Diniz, T.; Pinilla-Alonso, N.; De León, J. (2007). "The nature of comet-asteroid transition object (3200) Phaethon". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 461 (2): 751. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065833.
• Wu, I. P. (1993). "The Geminid meteor stream and asteroid 3200 Phaethon". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 262: 231. Bibcode:1993MNRAS.262..231W. {{cite journal}}: More than one of |author1= and |last= specified (help)
• Chamberlin, A (1996). "4015 Wilson-Harrington, 2201 Oljato, and 3200 Phaethon: Search for CN Emission". Icarus. 119: 173. doi:10.1006/icar.1996.0009.
• Hsieh, Henry H.; Jewitt, David (2005). "Search for Activity in 3200 Phaethon". The Astrophysical Journal. 624 (2): 1093. doi:10.1086/429250.
• Halliday, Ian (1988). "Geminid fireballs and the peculiar asteroid 3200 Phaethon". Icarus. 76 (2): 279. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(88)90073-5.
• Jewitt, David; Li, Jing (2010). "Activity in Geminid Parent (3200) Phaethon". The Astronomical Journal. 140 (5): 1519. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/140/5/1519.
• Wiegert, Paul A.; Houde, Martin; Peng, Ruisheng (2008). "An upper limit on gas production from 3200 Phaethon". Icarus. 194 (2): 843. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2007.12.013.
• Kasuga, T.; Watanabe, J.-I.; Sato, M. (2006). "Benefits of an impact mission to 3200 Phaethon: Nature of the extinct comet and artificial meteor shower". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 373 (3): 1107. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10862.x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
• Ryabova, G. O. (2012). "On the possible ejection of meteoroids from asteroid (3200) Phaethon in 2009". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 423 (3): 2254. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21033.x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
• Watson, K. (2009). "(3200) Phaethon". IAU Circ. 9054: 3. Bibcode:2009IAUC.9054....3B. {{cite journal}}: More than one of |author1= and |last= specified (help)
• De León, J.; Campins, H.; Tsiganis, K.; Morbidelli, A.; Licandro, J. (2010). "Origin of the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon and the Geminids meteor shower". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 513: A26. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200913609.

--Stone (talk) 22:44, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Used formats for wiki source code

For this edit and commentary I need some further explanation, the corresponding wikipedia guide-lines, and maybe even an example to substantiate it. Please do so. Thank you. -- Rfassbind – talk 20:14, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

There's no policy or guideline either way regarding reference columns, as far as I'm aware, except for some users' preference for or against. Keep the columns, its not worth the headache. As for the issue I was referring to, columns coupled with infoboxes looks like http://i.imgur.com/od4C5hA.png. — Huntster (t @ c) 17:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Hey @Huntster:, thank you for that clarification and I appreciate your screenshot linked above. (When I read your edit comment, linked in my first post above, I thought you might refer to something else.)

Concerning your comment, yes, I agree that in section "References", the Template:Div col should be used with caution. My rule of thumb was to use that template (with 30em) only when there are 10 or more references and the article contains sufficient text content in order to avoid the vertical stacking of images or the intrusion of an overlong infobox into that section. I will consider your feed-back and be more restrictive when using this template. Furthermore, as my edit was placed under scrutiny, let me return that favor. Please don't write <br/> in the article's source code (for reference, see amendment after Line 6:). This syntax is incorrect (both variants without slash or with a slash and a leading white space can be used though). Actually, the only disagreement between us seems to concern Help:List-defined references. You seem to prefer a format like this:

<ref name=Jewitt2010>
{{cite journal |last1=Jewitt |first1=David |last2=Li |first2=Jing |title=Activity in Geminid Parent (3200) Phaethon |journal=[[The Astronomical Journal]] |volume=140 |issue=5 |page=1519 |year=2010 |arxiv=1009.2710 |bibcode=2010AJ....140.1519J |doi=10.1088/0004-6256/140/5/1519}}</ref>

while I prefer a format like this:

<ref name=Jewitt2010>
{{cite journal
  |last=Jewitt |first=David
  |author2=Li, Jing
  |title=Activity in Geminid Parent (3200) Phaethon
  |journal=[[The Astronomical Journal]]
  |volume=140
  |issue=5
  |pages=1519
  |year=2010
  |arxiv=1009.2710
  |bibcode=2010AJ....140.1519J
  |doi=10.1088/0004-6256/140/5/1519
  }}</ref>

As you said, there is no rule about that. Here's my rationale: we "clean-up" the text-body of the article by moving citations into the {{Reflist}} under the |refs= attribute. Since they are no longer combined with the text, I do not see any reason to compress them. In fact, I find my way much more systematic and structured.

Finally I want you to know, that I a) greatly respect your work on Wikipedia (I remember you took great care of renaming files during the New Horizons-hype in July), b) I did in fact notice your changes, c) deliberately took so much time for my reply, and d) that I am sorry for misspelling your name and eager to earn your respect, as I came to realize that "guardians" like you are very much needed on Wikipedia. Don't think for a second I wouldn't recognize someone with more experience in his little finger than I will probably ever have in my life. -- Cheers, Rfassbind – talk 17:14, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Rfassbind, thanks for the comments. I think you are on the right track with moving refs to the {{reflist}} template. I absolutely prefer that method, though I'm usually hesitant to use it. I use a lovely little script from User:PleaseStand/References segregator that makes editing refs ridiculously easy, and assists in moving them to the LDR system. If you want, I'll handle that transition. If you're okay with <br /> then I'll work with that (the reason I use them is that I use a code colouring script that breaks without the closing slash for some unknown reason). Also, don't ever think to sell yourself short; you do excellent work here. Conflicts occasionally arise, but that's why we talk them out and find useful solutions like this! — Huntster (t @ c) 07:28, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Well I am late to this talk, but I also like the multi-line version better. -- Kheider (talk) 00:32, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Blue

No mention of it being on the blue side? That it is blue is one of the unusual aspects of 3200 Phaethon. Some references (though here are a lot more, just grabbed the first 3 that didn't come from UR): • Astronomy • Newsweek • Fox
— al-Shimoni (talk) 10:12, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Geminids parent body update

A new paper shows it may be a sibling of the Geminids, rather than the parent:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac0d02 Suggest editing to show this. I would, but I'm on an unstable connection. :(

[[User talk:Archolman|talk]] (talk) 02:33, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Sodium possibly accounts for Phaethon's tail

And a paper proposing sodium may account for Phaethon's tail:

[1]https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac0d02

Am I to include references to this? JojoTNO (talk) 15:54, 8 June 2023 (UTC)