Possible parent bodies for the Geminid meteor shower

Possible parent bodies for the Geminid meteor shower

Ireneusz Włodarczyk

We proposed graphical method of searching of the parent body for the Geminid meteor shower. Firstly, we selected 36 Apollos which orbits are close to the orbit of the Phaethon – one of the several parent body of the Geminid stream proposed so far. Among them, we found several asteroids with orbital parameters similar to that of Phaethon.