LAUREL, Maryland, June 14 -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: The bizarre blue color of asteroid (3200) Phaethon has been a puzzle for researchers since its discovery in 1983, but a recent study may have finally found the reason why Phaethon got the blues. Using a model to simulate the physical and chemical processes happening on Phaethon as it orbits the Sun, a pair of researchers showed how extreme heat and the preferential removal of  more