# 3200 Phaethon

> Apollo asteroid notable for its very small perihelion and for being the progenitor of the Geminid meteor shower

**Wikidata**: [Q18944](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18944)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3200_Phaethon)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/3200-phaethon


## References

1. [JPL Small-Body Database](https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20003200)
2. JPL Small-Body Database
3. Minor Planet Center database
4. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
5. [Source](https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=3200)