3200 Phaethon scaled one in eighty thousand

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<p>Originally published here: <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4232421">3200 Phaethon scaled one in eighty thousand by tato_713 - Thingiverse</a></p><p>I did not render this model, I just soften and simplified to look less "poly", using the model available in the DAMIT website.<br>The file's names explained: <i>name_1_x_10_y.stl</i> is 1 : x* 10y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million.&nbsp;</p><h4>3200 Phaethon</h4><p>Phaethon is an active asteroid, or rock comet, that is an asteroid that ejects clouds of dust particles like a <a href="/tato_713/collections/comets">comet</a>. It has a very elongated orbit, like a short period comet, which crosses the orbits of all the inner planets (<a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3503256">Mercury</a>, <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3557664">Venus</a>, <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3612782">Earth</a> and <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3513228">Mars</a>). The extreme solar radiation during the perihelion makes the surface broke, expelling regolith and boulders that periodically approach the <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3612782">Earth</a>, being responsible of the Geminids meteor shower. It could be an exhausted comet (without ice in its surface), or it could be alternatively a deorbited member of the <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3451291">Pallas</a> family.</p><ul><li><strong>Type:</strong> Near Earth asteroid. Potentially hazardous asteroid.</li><li><strong>Orbit:</strong> Sun. Apollo group.</li><li><strong>Orbital period:</strong> 523.6 d.</li><li><strong>Composition:</strong> Silicate rock. F-type.</li><li><strong>Density:</strong> ?</li><li><strong>Dimensions:</strong> 5.8 km</li><li><strong>Model scale:</strong> 1:4x104 (11cm) 1:8x104 (5cm)</li></ul><h4>References</h4><ul><li><a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018A%26A...620L...8H/abstract">"(3200) Phaethon: Bulk density from Yarkovsky drift detection, Hanuš et al. (2018)"&nbsp;</a></li></ul><h3>Other astronomical objects</h3><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49826">Inner Solar System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49832">Artificial</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49820">Near Earth Asteroids</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49291">Main Belt Asteroids</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49829">Jovian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49828">Saturn System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49830">Uranian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49345">Neptunian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49827">Centaurs</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49833">Comets</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49341">Trans Neptunian Objects</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49824">Extrasolar Objects</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49837">Sky Maps</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49831">Ancient</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49822">Speculative</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49821">Science Fiction</a></p>