[1] The radiant of the shower emerged from the antihelion source in late June and moves upwards to Cygnus in July.

In early August, the radiant is just west of the star Vega and elongated in a north-south direction.

The minor planet 2008 ED69 has the appropriate orbital parameters to explain the Kappa Cygnids shower.

As the meteor stream has more combined mass than 2008 ED69, the two may have originated during the fragmentation of a parent body.

The stream passes close to the planet Venus and hence may cause a significant meteor shower on that body.