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December Phi Cassiopeiids

Meteor Shower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ136656889 ↗
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The December Phi Cassiopeiids are a meteor shower beginning on the 28th of November and lasting until the 10th of December. It is visible from the Northern Hemisphere.

It originated with the 1649 perihelion of Biela's Comet. Activity is centered in eastern Cassiopeia, about one degree away from the star Ruchbach. It one of multiple meteor showers associated with Biela's Comet, the most famous of them being the Andromedids.

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This entry incorporates text from “December Phi Cassiopeiids” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.