See Icarus Wing By Earth This Week

Yes burnt! That's Icarus often bitter ill-will run today cheeky response. In the Greek myth of Icarus and his father, Daedalus, wax and feather wings, trying to escape Crete by the construction of buildings. Departure day Daedalus sun may not fall apart due to wax wings, sea or above the lower or warned his son to fly very high. Icarus flying into the excitement caused by his father to ignore the warning. Wax water when he plunges to his death at sea.

May have passed over this son believed too, but his grasp Adib, 1566 Icarus, live. It Palomar Observatory in California, June 27, 1949 in (Baade's Window fame) was discovered by none other than Walter Baade.

Imagine it any toxic wax and feathers retain heat long enough to be close to the sun that has burned out before the asteroid forever if given to the most appropriate one to do in Icarus was selected. Only 20 solar diameters, or 17.4 million miles - - With one knows close perihelion distance, across the 0.9-mile (1.4 km) asteroid approximately 1000 ° F (526 ° C) gets cooked!

This week it is close to 5 million, one rare earth approaches miles away, it is 14 miles away in June just 3.8 million, from the year 1968 to a close.

10:39 am central time on the day of closest approach today (June 16). Dipper's handle big score, this night is not only the asteroid +13.9 shine as bright, but it sticks in the moonless sky Venatici is well placed. For the following evening, it is the size and brightness to +13.5 Bootes pushed right through the coma Berenices. The chart below give detailed positions for 16-19 June, but Icarus is brighter than +14 size through the first day of summer.