Phoenicids

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The Phoenicids is the meteor shower that appeared in December 5, 1956. They are often noted to be related with the Constellation Phoenix.

The appearance of the meteor was observed by the corps of the first South Pole passing the winter in South Pole observation ship Soya, Japan while toward in 1956 the South Pole it until about 13:45 to 18:00 at the world.

These meteors were also frequently described as reddish and yellow. From a table listing the magnitude distribution of 61 meteors, the meteors have an average magnitude of 2.39.

Phoenicids is associated with the comet Blanpain (P/1818 W1). The comet was observed in 1819 and was missing. However, it turned out that the asteroid 2003 WY25 discovered in 2003 was the same as this comet in 2005.