The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower with 3200 Phaethon (which is thought to be an Apollo asteroid [4] with a "rock comet" orbit. [5]) being the parent body. [6] Because of this, it would make this shower, along with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet. More @Wikipedia
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