The motif of the fallen star must have been familiar in Israel, for Isaiah referred to it in admonishing the king of Babylon for his pride ("How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" Isaiah14:12ff). The Jewish Encyclopedia reports that "it is obvious that the prophet in attributing to the Babylonian king boastful pride, followed by a fall, borrowed the idea from a popular legend connected with the morning star." The falling-star image reappears in John'sApocalypse without a name. In the 4th century, Jerome's translation of the "morning star" as "Lucifer" carried the fallen-star myth-element into Christian mythology. For fuller details, see Lucifer and Azazel.
Jean-Baptiste Lully wrote a musical tragedy Phaeton, in which he referred indirectly to the fate of Nicolas Fouquet whose ambitions to imitate the King Louis XIV—The Sun King—brought on his downfall.
Camille Saint-Saëns wrote a symphonic poem entitled "Phaéton".
from the following story on Dec 7 12 referring to 3200 phaeton and an unknown fireball,
Geminid meteor shower promises to be a big one
Geminid gets its name from the constellation Gemini as the annual shower seems to arrive from near the star Castor in that constellation.
Alexander BesantDecember 7, 2012 18:11
Geminid gets its name from the constellation Gemini as the annual shower seems to arrive from near the star Castor in that constellation.
A Geminid meteor streaks diagonally across the sky against a field of star trails over one of the peaks of the Seven Sisters rock formation in this exposure early December 14, 2007 in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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Geminid meteor shower is expected to be big and bright NASA says.
Geminid gets its name from the constellation Gemini as the annual shower seems to arrive from near the star Castor in that constellation.
Space.com said that the Geminid showers tend to be the most bright and spectacular, outshining its rival the Perseid meteor shower.
The meteors from the shower are pieces of an object called the 3200 Phaethon - an extinct comet that was once believed to be an asteroid.
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NASA describes it as a "rocky skeleton of a comet that lost its ice after too many close encounters with the sun."
The debris collides with Earth every year since the 19th century.
The shower began weak and are now a huge light display.
They reach Earth at a speed of 22 miles per second, half the speed of other showers.
NASA said that the shower is expected to arrive this weekend and peak Dec. 13.
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