1) Airman of myth 2) Classic victim of hubris 3) Doomed flier 4) Doomed flyer 5) Doomed greek with wax wings 6) Escapee from Crete 7) Fictional spacecraft 8) Fired-up greek 9) First flier lost at sea 10) Flier of myth 11) Flier undone by melting wax 12) Flyer of myth 13) Flying son of Daedalus 14) Foolhardy flier
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1) Cretan 2) Soarer
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[experiment] ICARUS (Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals) is a physics experiment aimed at studying neutrinos. It is located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The CNGS neutrinos are also studied by the OPERA experiment, therefore those experiments are also called CNGS1 (OPERA) and CNGS2 (ICARUS). The CNGS measuremen...
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In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus. Often depicted in art, Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus` father warns him first of c....
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[Greeeen song] ==Summary== `Icarus` is the third Greeeen song to be used in a Japanese TV commercial, the first two being `Yuki no Oto` and `Sakura Color`. It is also the first time that the group collaborated with the Calpis company to actually perform the song in the commercial. The single comes in three versions, a regular CD version, a ...
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[crater] Icarus has a worn rim and a relatively wide inner wall. A small crater lies across the southern rim, and the side bulges outward slightly along the southwestern face. There is a disproportionately tall central peak located near the crater midpoint. This rise is unusual in that it is taller than the outer rim; most peaks are only ab...
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[journal] Icarus is a premier scientific journal dedicated to the field of planetary science. Its longtime owner and publisher was Academic Press, which was then purchased by Elsevier. It is published under the auspices of the American Astronomical Society`s Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS). The journal contains articles discussing the...
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asteroid that has a more eccentric orbit and also approaches nearer the Sun (within 30 million km [19 million miles]) than does any other known body ...
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in Greek mythology, son of the inventor Daedalus who perished by flying too near the Sun with waxen wings. See Daedalus.[2 related articles]
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a son of Daedalus whose wings melted when he soared too close to the sun.
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(minor planet 1566) A member of the Apollo group of asteroids, discovered by Walter Baade in 1949. Its orbit carries it well within the orbit of Mercury, but not quite as close to the Sun as 2000 BD19 (0.09AU), 1995 CR (0.12 AU), or 3200 Phaethon (0.14 AU). Icarus ranks fifth on...
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In Greek mythology, the son of
Daedalus, who with his father escaped from the labyrinth in Crete by making wings of feathers fastened with wax. Icarus plunged to his death when he flew too near the...
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Icarus was the son of Daedalus the first man to fly. Unfortunately Icarus flew too near the sun and the wax holding his feathers melted.
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Icarus was the son Daedalus. They went to Crete and were prevented from leaving by ship by king Minos. They escaped from the Minos labyrinth by means of wings made by his father Daedalus of feathers stitched to ribs of willow and the feathers held together by wax. In escaping Icarus showed off and flew too close to the sun, the wax holding the feat...
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Icarus is an Apollo asteroid 1.5 km in diameter, discovered 1949. It orbits the Sun every 409 days at a distance of between 28 and 300 million km. It was the first asteroid discovered to approach closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury does. In 1968 it passed 6 million km away from the Earth.
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HMS Icarus was a British Intrepid Class destroyer of 1370 tons displacement launched in 1936. She was armed with four 4.7-inch guns; six smaller guns and ten 21-inch torpedo tubes. She was powered by three Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 36 knots and carried a complement of 145.
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[
n] - (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus
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acronym: Interagency Climate-Aerosol Radiative Uncertainties and Sensitivities (Program)
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(astronomy) In astronomy, Apollo asteroid 1.5 km/1 mi in diameter, discovered in 1949 by German-born US astronomer Walter Baade. It orbits the Sun every 409 days at a distance of 28–300 million km/18–186 million mi (0.19–2.0 astronomical units). It was the first aste...
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(mythology) In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus, who with his father escaped from the labyrinth in Crete by making wings of feathers fastened with wax. Icarus plunged to his death when he flew too near the Sun and the wax melted
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Son of Daedalus; flew too near sun with wax-attached wings and fell into sea and was drowned.
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a youth who attempted to escape from Crete with wings of wax and feathers but flew so high that his wings melted from the heat of the sun, and he plunged to his death in the sea. · an asteroid whose eccentric orbit brings it closer to the sun than any other known asteroid.
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