1566 Icarus Asteroid and Icarus - Ostrava, Czech Republic - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

The statue of Icarus is a part of fountain dominating the place in front of Town Hall in Ostrava, Prokešovo námestí (Prokešovo square). The bronze statue weighing about 7 tons (15k lb) and its height is 3.5 meters (about 12 ft).It is the third largest bronze sculpture in the Czech Republic. The statue was creatd by the sculptor František Štork and installed here on July 1st, 1999. The statue is supposed to symbolise, according to a legend, Ostrava’s takeoffs and falls.

ICARUS

According to the Greek myth Icarus was son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax. Daedalus had been imprisoned by King Minos of Crete within the walls of his own invention, the Labyrinth. But the great craftsman's genius would not suffer captivity. He made two pairs of wings by adhering feathers to a wooden frame with wax. Giving one pair to his son, he cautioned him that flying too near the sun would cause the wax to melt. But Icarus became ecstatic with the ability to fly and forgot his father's warning. The feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea.

THE LOCATION - 1566 Icarus

Asteroid 1566, Icarus, discovered in 1949 by Walter Baade. is an Apollo asteroid, or near Earth asteroid, that at perihelion that comes closer to the Sun than Mercury,. Icarus was Classified as a Mercury/Venus/Mars crosser asteroid, Icarus does just that, crosses the orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars. Icarus orbits the Sun in roughly 1.12 years and spends around 4-5 weeks in each sign.
It is named after Icarus of Greek mythology, who flew too close to the Sun.
Icarus makes a close approach to Earth at gaps of 9, 19, or 38 years. Rarely, it comes as close as 6.4 millon Km (4 million miles or 16 lunar distances), as it did on June 14, 1968. The last close approach was in 1996, at 15.1 millon Km, almost 40 times as far as the Moon. The next close approach will be June 16, 2015, at 8.1 millon Km (5 million miles).

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