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The Discovery of Icarus

A chunk of rock less than a mile in diameter, Icarus comes closer to the sun and the earth than any other asteroid whose orbit has been accurately computed. It should miss us by four million miles in 1968

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 212 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Discovery of Icarus” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 212 No. 4 (), p. 106
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0465-106