Project Icarus : (Record no. 73288)
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| fixed length control field | 03533nam a2200493 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 6276892 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204800.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151223s1979 maua ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0262630680 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262310987 |
| -- | electronic |
| 082 00 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 629.43 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Project Icarus : |
| Sub Title | MIT student project in systems engineering. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (viii, 162 pages) : |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This technological fantasy, the product of the MIT Students System Project and the inspiration for the 1979 film "Meteor," presents a plan for avoiding a hypothetical collision between Earth and the Apollo asteroid, Icarus, which sweeps by every nineteen years within a few million miles (a near-miss in astronomical terms). Collision with a four billion-ton rock would create a catastrophe equal to the destructive power of half a trillion tons of TNT.To prevent tidal waves from washing away the coasts of North America and Europe and shock waves from fracturing the earth's substructure, the Project Icarus plan calls for six 100-megaton hydrogen bombs to be ready for liftoff in sequence from the Kennedy Space Center by six Saturn V rockets in an attempt to push the asteroid off course or to smash it into harmless debris. Clearly, money is no object; all the financial resources of the country are assumed available to the crack Project Icarus team. But time and accuracy are essential.The description of the frantic project schedule from go-ahead to impact includes selection and modification of the launch vehicle and spacecraft; "design" of the nuclear warhead and prediction of its interaction with the asteroid in space; guidance and control of the spacecraft on its critical intercept trajectory; development of an intercept monitoring satellite to gather scientific data from the asteroid and the explosion; the tight management and rigid PERT schedule; and the economic impact of the project.How close to Earth will Icarus's eccentric orbit carry it next time? What are the chances of some other, as yet undiscovered, asteroid -- or worse, a random meteor -- making its way straight for Earth? The MIT team's plan may yet be put to the test. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Systems engineering. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6276892 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | c1968. |
| 264 #2 - | |
| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [1979] |
| 336 ## - | |
| -- | text |
| -- | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - | |
| -- | electronic |
| -- | isbdmedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
| -- | rdacarrier |
| 588 ## - | |
| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Astronautics |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Space vehicles. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Hydrogen bomb. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 2 | |
| -- | Icarus (Asteroid) |
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