NEOWISE observations show 289P/Blanpain's near-perihelion dust production is an order of magnitude too small to make the Phoenicid stream, favoring a 1743 to 1819 rotational breakup of a sub-km precursor.
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Comet 289P/Blanpain: Near-Perihelion Activity and the Phoenicids
NEOWISE observations show 289P/Blanpain's near-perihelion dust production is an order of magnitude too small to make the Phoenicid stream, favoring a 1743 to 1819 rotational breakup of a sub-km precursor.