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(1566) Icarus, 19 June 2015
The tiny dot in the middle is a lump of rock just over a km in mean diameter hurtling through space at a distance of 10.7 million km from Earth.
(1566) Icarus is an Apollo asteroid (m.p.) discovered in 1949 and one of the first identified NEOs. It was also the first asteroid to be observed with radar, in 1996. Icarus made a close pass to Earth of about 8 million km on 16 June 2015 and it was again observed with radar, results yet to be announced.
Canon 650D, 200mm lens, 7 x 20 sec, ISO 6400, F/5.6, crop. 08:42-47, 19 June 2015 UT.
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