 On 29 May 2014 the comet passed from Earth, but only brightened to about apparent magnitude 12.The 2014 Earth approach was the 9th closest known comet approach to Earth.Preliminary results by Esko Lyytinen and Peter Jenniskens, later confirmed by other researchers, predicted 209P/LINEAR might generate the next big meteor shower which would come from the constellation Camelopardalis on the night of 23/24 May 2014.