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...

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)...

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...

photography project Project Icarus, a 1967 MIT student project to defend against risks from the asteroid 1566 Icarus "Project Icarus", the working title of...

distance; only two other named asteroids have one less than 0.2 AU, 1566 Icarus and 3200 Phaethon. "Talos". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d....

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...

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...

IAU-number (1862) is higher than that of some other Apollo asteroids such as 1566 Icarus, due to the fact that it was a lost asteroid for more than 40 years and...

is notable for having an orbit that has the same period as Earth's. 1 1566 Icarus 2 1620 Geographos 3 1685 Toro 4 1862 Apollo 5 1863 Antinous 6 1864 Daedalus...

(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...

Wilson, Rudolph Minkowski List (29075) 1950 DA 1950 Carl A. Wirtanen List 1566 Icarus 1949 Walter Baade List 1685 Toro 1948 Carl A. Wirtanen List 2101 Adonis...

"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,...

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...

Lemaître November 25, 1948 Uccle S. Arend  · 7.9 km MPC · JPL 1566 Icarus 1949 MA Icarus June 27, 1949 Palomar W. Baade APO +1km · PHA 1.0 km MPC · JPL...

to be ejected from this orbital arrangement about 500 years from now. 1566 Icarus ‡ 1862 Apollo 1864 Daedalus 1865 Cerberus 1981 Midas 2063 Bacchus 2100...

2004 AS1 1.070 Apollo asteroid (433953) 1997 XR2 1.077 Apollo asteroid 1566 Icarus 1.078 Apollo asteroid, Mercury-crosser asteroid, Venus-crosser asteroid...

Belgian astronomer and Jesuit priest MPC · 1565 1566 Icarus 1949 MA Icarus, mythological Greek aeronaut MPC · 1566 1567 Alikoski 1941 HN Heikki A. Alikoski (1912–1997)...

albedo. They are only an approximation.). The lowest numbered PHA is 1566 Icarus. Below is a list of the largest PHAs (based on absolute magnitude H)...

MIT did a design study, "Project Icarus", of a mission to prevent a hypothetical impact on Earth by asteroid 1566 Icarus. The design project was later published...

mentions "Project Icarus", a report on the concept to use missiles to deflect an earthbound asteroid. The original Project Icarus was a student project...

is unknown, but scientists suspect that they come from the asteroid 1566 Icarus, although the orbit also corresponds similarly to 96P/Machholz. First...

distribution of the main asteroid belt". Icarus. 175 (1): 111–140. Bibcode:2005Icar..175..111B. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.10.026. "NASA Astrobiology". "Recent...

Project Icarus was a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009. Project Icarus was an experiment in 2009 to launch a camera into...

Lemaître. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 124. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1566. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. "1565 Lemaitre (1948 WA)". Minor Planet Center....

9267 23.0 Apollo 2018 YC2 0.186 2.628 5.070 16.413 0.9292 22.7 Apollo 1566 Icarus 0.187 1.078 1.970 22.822 0.8270 16.9 Apollo First Mercury crosser discovered...

v t e Minor planets navigator 1566 Icarus 1567 Alikoski 1568 Aisleen...

transneptunian binary Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà ((229762) 2007 UK126)" (PDF). Icarus. 334: 30–38. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2018.12.037. S2CID 126574999. Archived from the original...

Browser. Instead, they are categorized as Near Earth Objects (NEOs). 1566 Icarus 1685 Toro 1862 Apollo 1863 Antinous 1864 Daedalus 1866 Sisyphus 1981...

Technology asked his graduate students to come up with a plan to deflect 1566 Icarus, an asteroid about 1 km wide. An asteroid was observed to have an orbit...

with the Fall of Icarus" about the same painting, and with a similar theme. This poem and the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus appear side-by-side...