Scientists track meteor shower to unusual comet seen every 4,000 years – Space.com

Meteor showers are the dazzling result of cometary debris building up along well-worn paths through the solar system
, then burning up in Earth’s atmosphere as our planet crosses that dust trail.
It’s hard to call a path well-worn when something passes by only once every 3,967 years. But it turns out that type of long-period comet can still be tied to a specific meteor shower, as scientists have done with Comet
C/2002 Y1 Juels-Holvorcem and the UY Lyncids shower. The research that connected the…

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