Meteor shower particles that are quickly blown away by solar radiation pressure). Recently, Peter Jenniskens has argued that most of our short-period meteor showers are not from the normal water vapor drag of active comets, but the product of infrequent disintegrations, when large chunks break off a mostly dormant comet. Examples are the Quadrantids and Geminids, which originated from a breakup of asteroid-looking objects, 2003 EH1 and 3200 Phaethon, respectively, about 500 and 1000 years ago. The fragments tend to fall apart quickly into dust, sand, and pebbles, and spread out along the orbit of the comet to form a dense meteoroid
December Songs December Songs December Songs is a song cycle by Maury Yeston, best known as a musical theatre composer-lyricist responsible for the music and lyrics for "Nine", "Titanic",""Phantom"", and part of "Grand Hotel". The work is a 'retelling' of Franz Schubert's "Winterreise", (a song cycle of art songs), with a cabaret sensibility. The songs in both "December Songs" and "Winterreise" are linked as a sequence of reflections by the singer taking a lonely walk in winter, thinking back on his or her lost love. The piece crosses over the line from classical music to Broadway to cabaret. The work was written