Английская Википедия:1566 Icarus
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1566 Icarus (Шаблон:IPAc-en Шаблон:Respell; provisional designation: Шаблон:Mp) is a large near-Earth object of the Apollo group and the lowest numbered potentially hazardous asteroid.[1] It has is an extremely eccentric orbit (0.83) and measures approximately Шаблон:Convert in diameter. In 1968, it became the first asteroid ever observed by radar.[2] Its orbit brings it closer to the Sun than Mercury and further out than the orbit of Mars, which also makes it a Mercury-, Venus-, and Mars-crossing asteroid. This stony asteroid and relatively fast rotator with a period of 2.27 hours was discovered on 27 June 1949, by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Palomar Observatory in California.[3] It was named after the mythological Icarus.[2]
Orbit and classification
Icarus orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.19–1.97 AU once every 13 months (409 days; semi-major axis of 1.08 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.83 and an inclination of 23° with respect to the ecliptic.[4] The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation at Palomar in 1949.[3]
At perihelion, Icarus comes closer to the Sun than Mercury, i.e. it is a Mercury-crossing asteroid. It is also a Venus and Mars-crosser. From 1949 until the discovery of 3200 Phaethon in 1983, it was known as the asteroid that passed closest to the Sun. Since then hundreds of Mercury-crossers have been found, the closest ones are now being Шаблон:Mpl and Шаблон:Mpl (also see Шаблон:Section link).
Meteor shower
Icarus is thought to be the source of the Arietids,[5] a strong daylight meteor shower. However other objects such as the short-period Sun-grazing comet 96P/Machholz are also possible candidates for the shower's origin.[6]
Close approaches
Icarus has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of Шаблон:Convert, which translates into 13.7 lunar distances (LD).[4] This near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid makes close approaches to Earth in June at intervals of 9, 19, or 28 years.
On 14 June 1968, it came as close as Шаблон:Convert.[7] During this approach, Icarus became the first minor planet to be observed using radar, with measurements obtained at the Haystack Observatory[8] and the Goldstone Tracking Station.[9]
The last close approach was on 16 June 2015, when Icarus passed Earth at Шаблон:Convert.[10][7] Before that, the previous close approach was on 11 June 1996, at Шаблон:Convert, almost 40 times as far as the Moon. The next notably close approach will be on 13 June 2043, at Шаблон:Convert from Earth.[7]
Naming
This minor planet was named after Icarus, son of Daedalus (also see 1864 Daedalus) from Greek mythology. They attempted to escape prison by means of wings constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the Sun. When the wax in his wings melted he fell into the sea and drowned.[2] The naming was suggested by R. C. Cameron and Dr. Folkman. The official Шаблон:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center in January 1950 (Шаблон:Small).[11] Both mythological figures are honored with the lunar craters Icarus and Daedalus.[2]
Physical characteristics
Radiometric observation characterized Icarus as a stony S-type and Q-type asteroid.[12]
Rotation period
Since 1968, several rotational lightcurves of Icarus were obtained from photometric and radiometric observations.[13][14][15] During the asteroid's close approach in June 2017, observations of the fast-moving object were taken by Italian astronomers Virginio Oldani and Federico Manzini, Brian Warner at the Palmer Divide Station (Шаблон:Small) in California, and by Australian astronomers at the Darling Range and Blue Mountains Observatories (Шаблон:Small).[16][17][18]Шаблон:Efn
Lightcurve analysis gave it a consolidated rotation period of 2.2726 hours with a brightness variation of 0.22 magnitude (Шаблон:Small).[19]Шаблон:Efn Icarus is a relatively fast rotator, near the threshold where non-solid rubble piles fly apart.
Spin axis
Analysis of 2015 radar observations obtained at the Arecibo Observatory and the Goldstone Observatory yields a spin axis of (270.0°, −81.0°) in ecliptic coordinates (λ, β).[10]
Diameter and albedo
According to several radiometric, photometric, and radar observations, including the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Icarus measures between 1.0 and 1.44 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.14 and 0.51.[20][21][22][10][23]Шаблон:Efn
Analysis of the radar data obtained at the Arecibo and Goldstone observatories in June 2015 gives the body's dimensions: Шаблон:Val kilometers, with equivalent diameter of 1.44 kilometers.[10] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link adopts an albedo of 0.14 based on the radar-derived equivalent diameter of 1.44 kilometers and absolute magnitude of 16.96.[19]
Research interests
Icarus is being studied to better understand general relativity, solar oblateness, and Yarkovsky drift.[24][25] In its case, the perihelion precession caused by general relativity is 10.05 arcseconds per Julian century.[24][25]
Project Icarus
"Project Icarus" was a student project conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the spring of 1967 as a contingency plan in case of an impending collision with Шаблон:Mp.
This project was an assignment by Paul Sandorff for his group of MIT systems engineering graduate students to devise a plan to use rockets to deflect or destroy Icarus in the case that it was found to be on a collision course with planet Earth.[26][27][28] Time magazine ran an article on the endeavor in June 1967[27] and the following year the student report was published as a book.[26][28][29]
The students' plan relied on the new Saturn V rocket, which did not make its first flight until after the report had been completed. During the course of their study, the students visited the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, where they were so impressed with the Vehicle Assembly Building that they wrote of "the awesome reality" that had "completely erased" their doubts over using the technology associated with the Apollo program and Saturn rockets.
The final plan hypothesized that six Saturn V rockets (appropriated from the then-current Apollo program) would be used, each launched at variable intervals from months to hours away from impact. Each rocket was to be fitted with a single 100-megaton nuclear warhead as well as a modified Apollo Service Module and uncrewed Apollo Command Module for guidance to the target. The warheads would be detonated 30 meters from the surface, deflecting or partially destroying the asteroid. Depending on the subsequent impacts on the course or the destruction of the asteroid, later missions would be modified or cancelled as needed. The "last-ditch" launch of the sixth rocket would be 18 hours prior to impact.[30]
In fiction
The report later served as the basis and inspiration for the 1979 science fiction film Meteor.[28][31]
"Summertime on Icarus" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.
Notes
References
External links
- NeoDys Object Listing: orbital elements and list of close approaches
- Article on TheSpaceReview.com about Project Icarus
- Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Шаблон:Webarchive)
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdRШаблон:Snd Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
- Шаблон:NeoDys
- Шаблон:ESA-SSA
- Шаблон:JPL small body
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