The orbital inclination of Phaethon spares us from the hazard of a collision with Earth (and the other terrestrial planets) over long time periods- but not permanently. The closest it can get to Earth in its present orbit, a hair less than 0.02 AU: 0.02 x 150 million kilometers, gives us 3 million kilometers of clearance when it is at its closest about 8 times as far away as the Moon. Generally, while passing across the orbits of the terrestrial planets, Phaethon is safely out of the plane in which they orbit. Phaethon's seemingly hazardous existence is greatly prolonged by the fact that its orbit is significantly tilted out of the plane of the ecliptic, with an inclination of 22.25 degrees relative to the ecliptic. Another oddity of Phaethon is that its color is unusually bluish we can be quite sure that it is not blue ice! At perihelion, the daytime temperature can reach a peak of over 1000 Kelvin. The surface of Phaethon is quite dark, with an albedo (reflectivity) of only 0.1066: more than 89% of the incident sunlight is absorbed. The intensity of sunlight on Phaethon's surface ranges from 50 times the intensity of sunlight at Earth's orbital distance when Phaethon is at perihelion to 6% of normal sunlight at aphelion. Each circuit, with eight crossings of planetary orbits, takes 523.5 days Second, Phaethon's orbit is more like that of a comet than that of a typical asteroid: on each trip around the Sun, it dives in to a perihelion passage a mere 0.140 AU from the Sun, far inside Mercury's orbit, and then coasts out to an aphelion distance of 4.025 AU, beyond the main asteroid belt, crossing the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars twice each on every orbit around the Sun. That suggests a tribal association with the big Belt asteroid 2 Pallas, which in turn implies cold and wet.

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