Meteor shower from 'dead' comet sighted again after 58 years
Astronomers have reported the sighting of the Phoenicid meteor shower (named after the constellation Phoenix), 58 years after it was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. The meteors are believed to be remains of Comet Blanpain, which disappeared after its first sighting in 1819. Blanpain later reappeared as an asteroid as all its gas and dust had escaped.