Icarus

(1949 MA )
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NOW @ 10 TAU 13
FOUND @ 12 SAG 37
 
Inclination: 22.8
Eccentricity: 0.827
Period: 1.12 years
AU 1.078
Type: 9803

Discovery Chart

27.6.1949 05:44 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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The discoverer has assigned to this unusual planet the name of the mythological boy who escaped imprisonment on wings of wax, but he flew too near the Sun and they melted, so that he fell into the sea. (M347) _ _.


Discovered on 27-6-1949 in Palomar by Baade, W.

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