Icarus

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5265.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5265. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Asteroids

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An Apollo asteroid discovered by Walter Baade in 1949, designated (1566) Icarus. In 1968, when it passed just 0.04 AU from the Earth, it was observed by radar and found to be about 1 km in diameter and to rotate in 2.27 h. Icarus is one of only a handful of asteroids with a perihelion distance (0.19 AU) within the orbit of Mercury; aphelion is at 1.97 AU, and its mean distance from the Sun is 1.0...

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