1566 Icarus
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| Radius | 500 m |
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| Orbital period | 409 days |
| Mean anomaly | 199. 93° |
| Discoverer | Walter Baade |
| Orbits | Sun |
| Geometric albedo | 0. 14; 0. 14±0. 10; 0. 199±0. 110; 0. 29±0. 05; 0. 33; 0. 40; 0. 51 |
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| ID | 2957312 |
About 1566 Icarus
1566 Icarus, provisional designation 1949 MA, is an extremely eccentric asteroid, approximately 1. 4 km in diameter. It is a near-Earth object of the Apollo group and the lowest numbered potentially hazardous asteroid. In 1968, it became the first asteroid ever observed by radar.