The National Interest

Project Icarus: In Case of Armageddon NASA Had an Action Plan

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The final plan created by the students at MIT involved sending a series of six or seven nuclear-armed missiles towards 1566 Icarus in succession. Each of the missiles ...
The National Interest

Project Icarus: MIT’s Plan To Save Planet Earth From Armageddon

A thought experiment conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s posed students with a question. What would you do if 1566 Icarus was headed to earth on an impact trajectory?
Armenpress

Icarus asteroid makes close approach to Earth

YEREVAN, JUNE 16, ARMENPRESS. An Earth-crossing asteroid with an interesting history pays our fair planet a visit this month, offering backyard observers a chance to watch it glide silently through ...
The Independent

1566 Icarus: How to spot Earth-crossing asteroid and livestream the 'distant pass'

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Bernews

Project Icarus: How MIT ‘Saved’ Bermuda

At 12:26 p.m. on June 19, 1968 the asteroid Icarus, which is nearly a mile in diameter, will crash into the mid-Atlantic, just east of Bermuda. Its impact — the equivalent of a 500,000-megaton bomb ...
Nature

Observations of the Minor Planet 1566–Icarus

AT the Cape the faint and fast moving asteroid, Icarus, was successfully registered on plates which were taken in each of eleven observable nights from June 18 to July 12. During this period its ...
The Independent

Asteroid Icarus to skim past the Earth in rare 'distant pass'

Asteroid Icarus, the kilometre-long spacerock named after the Greek mythological character that flew too close to the sun, will skim past the Earth on Tuesday night making a rare “distant pass” of ...