1566 Icarus (/ˈɪkərəs/ IK-ə-rəs; provisional designation: 1949 MA) is a large near-Earth object of the Apollo group and the lowest numbered potentially...
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Look up Icarus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Icarus is a character in Greek mythology. Icarus or Ikarus may also refer to: Roger Squires (1932–2023)...
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recognized as a distinct dynamical class until 1977); the Apollo-class 1566 Icarus, the perihelion of which is closer than that of Mercury; and the Amor-type...
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photography project Project Icarus, a 1967 MIT student project to defend against risks from the asteroid 1566 Icarus "Project Icarus", the working title of...
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is unknown, but scientists suspect that they come from the asteroid 1566 Icarus, although the orbit also corresponds similarly to 96P/Machholz. First...
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(IRAS-Araki-Alcock) Daytime Arietids 14 May – 24 Jun 7 Jun 76.6 2.9 +24 38 30 medium 1566 Icarus ? June Bootids 22 Jun – 2 Jul 27 Jun 95.7 14.9 +48 18 variable bright...
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the Earth. "Project Icarus" was one of the first projects designed in 1967 as a contingency plan in case of collision with 1566 Icarus. The plan relied on...
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"Chemistry of impact events on Mercury". Icarus. 300: 210–222. Bibcode:2018Icar..300..210B. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.08.034. Dunne, James A.; Burgess,...
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km/s @ 0.124 AU 38.5 km/s 3200 Phaethon 109 km/s @ 0.140 AU 32.7 km/s 1566 Icarus 93.1 km/s @ 0.187 AU 30.9 km/s 66391 Moshup 86.5 km/s @ 0.200 AU 19.8...
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asteroid 1566 Icarus passed Earth at a distance of 0.042 AU (6,300,000 km), or 16 times the distance of the Moon. During this approach, Icarus became the...
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