Icarus, asteroid that has a more eccentric orbit and also approaches nearer the Sun (within 30 million km [19 million miles]) than does any other known body in the solar system except comets.
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Asteroid - planetoid, or minor planet, small body orbiting the sun.
1566 Icarus is an Apollo asteroid (a sub-class of near-Earth asteroid) whose unusual characteristic is that at perihelion it is closer to the Sun than Mercury; it is said to be a Mercury-crosser asteroid. It is also a Venus- and a Mars-crosser.
Icarus
Asteroid No. 1566, 1.1 km in diameter, discovered by Baade in 1948. It has the smallest orbit and highest eccentricity (a = 1.07 AU, e = 0.827, i = 23°, P = 408d) of any known minor planet.
1566 Icarus has one of the smallest orbits. At perihelion it is only 0.2 AU from the Sun (closer than Mercury) while at aphelion it is at almost 2 AU.
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1566 Icarus has an orbit that carries it closer to the Sun than Mercury, the innermost planet in the solar system.
The comet Icarus IV in the Romulan Neutral Zone was the locus for part of the battle between the USS Enterprise and a Romulan Bird-of-Prey in 2266. (TOS: "Balance of Terror") ...
Parker, D.C., J.D. Beish, D. M. Troiani, D. P. Joyce, and C. E. Hernandez (1999), "Telescopic Observations of Mars, 1996-1997: Results of the Marswatch Program," ICARUS, Vol. 138, No. 1, March, P.3.
The asteroid Icarus (Figure 14.4) has perihelion of 0.2 A.U. and orbital eccentricity of 0.69. Calculate its orbital semi-major axis and aphelion distance from the Sun.
Icarus 151: 307. doi:10.1006/icar.2001.6607. arΧiv:astro-ph/0012399.
^ a b Thierry Montmerle, Jean-Charles Augereau, Marc Chaussidon (2006). "Solar System Formation and Early Evolution: the First 100 Million Years".
The hypothesis was first proposed at a conference on satellites in 1974 and then published in Icarus in 1975 by Drs. Bill K. Hartmann and Donald R. Davis.
Origins ...
Porco, "Astrometry and dynamics of Anthe (S/2007 S 4), a new satellite of Saturn", Icarus 195, 765-777, 2008.
Physical parameters from Murray, C.D., and S.F. Dermott, "Solar System Dynamics", Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Lewis, 1987, "Estimated impact shock production of N2 and organic compounds on early Titan," Icarus, 72, 381
G.P. Kuiper, 1944, "Titan: a Satellite with an Atmosphere," Astrophysical Journal, 100, 378
J.I. Lunine and D.J.
The ancient Greek myths of Daedalus and Icarus also reflect the universal desire to fly. As early as the 2d century ad the Greek satirist Lucian wrote about an imaginary voyage to the moon.
The research has been accepted for publication in the journal Icarus.
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Judging from the story of Daedalus and Icarus, humans have been interested in aerodynamics and flying for thousands of years. But flying in a heavier-than-air machine has been possible only in the last hundred years, thanks to the Wright brothers.
A second legend identifies Boötes with Icarius (not to be confused with Icarus, son of Daedalus). According to this tale, recounted at length by Hyginus in Poetic Astronomy (II.4), the god Dionysus taught Icarius how to cultivate vines and make wine.
Of note, the asteroid Icarus, when closest to the sun, lies within Mercury's orbit - it comes close enough to the sun that Relativity must be taken into account in order to accurately predict its orbit.
Shoemaker 1986 1566 Icarus 161269 0.7 ? Baade 1949 433 Eros 172800 33x13x13 Witt 1898 1862 Apollo 220061 0.7 ? Reinmuth 1932 2212 Hephaistos 323884 4.4 ? Chernykh 1978 951 Gaspra 330000 8 ? Neujmin 1916 4 Vesta 353400 265 3.
Plescia, J. B. "The Geology of Dione." ICARUS, 56, 255-277, 1983.
Soderblom, Laurence A. and Torrence V. Johnson. "The Moons of Saturn." Scientific American, January 1982.
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Also there were Artemis, Athene, Atlas, Cosmos, Hera, Hercules, Icarus, Idana, Odin, Pax, Persephone, Perseus, Prometheus, Tantalus, Vulcan, Zymal, and many more.
8.04 Which of the following are scientific journals in which results of many JPL spacecraft experiments are first formally published?
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A nearby galaxy in which a type Ia supernova exploded in 1937. [C95]
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It dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction built for King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus who were ordered to build it to hold the Minotaur....
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Icarus - International Journal of Solar System Exploration Cornell ...
This constellation has been known by many other names - Arcas, Arctophylax, Arcturus minor, Bubuleus, Bubulus, Canis latrans, Clamator, Icarus, Lycaon, Philometus, Plaustri custos, Plorans, Thegnis, Vociferator; ...
This same process is thought to have happened in the Solar System as well under a new theory (space.com article; Levison, Morbidelli, and Gomes, Icarus, 2004; Robert Gomes, Nature, November 27, 2003; and Thommes et al, 2003).
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