In the evening, the Earth comes closer kilometer asteroid 1566 Icarus – Moskovsky Komsomolets

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near-Earth asteroids Icarus (1566 Icarus ( 1949 MA), recorded in 1949, today, Tuesday, June 16 close to our Earth as close as possible, inform the inhabitants of the earth American organization NASA. According to this agency, Icarus safely pass by Earth at a distance of about 8 million kilometers. When the hypothetical collision of the Earth and Icarus may die a fifth of the world’s population.

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Weight Icarus: 2.9 x 10 (12) kg. Gravitational acceleration: 0.00039 m / s². The absolute magnitude : 16,9.

It is calculated that the approach to the world of Icarus will happen at 15:39 UT, and by MSK at 18:39. Distance from us will be about 7 million km ( approx 17 distance between the Earth and the Moon).

Icarus approaching Earth every 9, 19 and 38 years old. The last time he was at a distance of 15.1 million kilometers in late 1996.

Icarus belongs to the so-called group of Apollo. The asteroid was spotted by the German supervisor Walter Baade at Palomar Observatory in the United States in the late 1940s. Icarus is considered one of the first discovered near-Earth objects. He moves very elongated orbit. The diameter has a kilometer.

This asteroid “lives” in an orbit with a high eccentricity, for which reason the motion in its orbit it is “significantly” alter the distance from the Sun, and even crosses the orbits of all the terrestrial planets.

Icarus, justifying his own name, close to the Sun at a distance of approximately 28.5 million kilometers – the surface with this approaching is heated to more than six hundred degrees Celsius.

Even in 1968, Australian researchers carded, that due to the convergence of Icarus with the Earth in the same year, he was a high probability allegedly could crash into the Indian Ocean near Africa. These predictions have not come true and Icarus followed at a distance of 6.36 million kilometers by us. But neither bring know who if he still collapsed on us, the impact energy would be equal to 100 Mt “in trotyl».

An asteroid named after the Greek mythology character Icarus, ideologically closer to the burnt from the sun.

In Soviet science fiction film in 1959, “Heaven is calling” on the asteroid crash landed Soviet rescue mission with the Americans on board. They help with the Earth.

In 1967, a professor of Massachusetts has set students the task of destroying the asteroid Icarus in the situation of its collision with Earth. The story of this project was published in the journal Time. This work inspired the producers of Hollywood to produce the movie “Meteor».