Fizzing Sodium May Be Why Asteroid Phaethon Has A Very Comet-like Tail
Asteroid3200 Phaethonis the archetypal sungrazer , and yet shows some very rum behavior on the hottest part of its eye socket . comet splendidly evaporate ice the closer they get to the Sun , leaving a bright trail of dust and rock and gas behind them . Asteroids , being mainly rock not ice , famously do not , and yet Phaethon gets more active the closer it draw to the Sun ....