Icarus

(1949 MA )
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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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26-02-2004Macedonian president dies in plane crash. Asteroid Icarus conjunct asteroid Yugoslavia.