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Planetary Science Seminar spring-2019

The Strange Case of Phaethon

April 5, 2019, noon - 1 p.m.
Slichter 3853

Presented By:
David Jewitt
UCLA

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Active asteroid Phaethon is the source of a famous and massive debris stream (the “Geminids”). I will discuss my recent work attempting to understand why and how this asteroid ejects matter.