Icarus

[ ik-er-uhs, ahy-ker- ]

noun

1. Also Ik·a·ros []. Classical Mythology. 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.
2. Astronomy. an asteroid whose eccentric orbit brings it closer to the sun than any other known asteroid.

Icarus

/ ˈaɪ-; ˈɪkərəs /

noun

1. Greek myth the son of Daedalus, with whom he escaped from Crete, flying with wings made of wax and feathers. Heedless of his father's warning he flew too near the sun, causing the wax to melt, and fell into the Aegean and drowned

Icarus

/ ĭk′ər-əs /

1. A small asteroid with a highly eccentric, Earth-crossing orbit that takes it to within 30 million km (19 million mi) of the Sun, or closer than the planet Mercury. In 1968 Icarus approached within 6 million km (4 million mi) of the Earth.
2. See more at asteroid

Icarus

1. In classical mythology , the son of Daedalus . Icarus died tragically while using artificial wings, invented by his father, to escape from the Labyrinth . When Icarus flew too close to the sun , it melted the wax that held the wings together, and he fell into the sea.

Example Sentences

What few readers saw at the time is that this is an Icarus story.

From Los Angeles Times

It was long thought that high-speed collisions pulverized the comet ejecta, but now a 45-member team of researchers reports, in a paper published online in the journal Icarus this week, that heat is to blame.

From Science Daily

The results were published in the journal Icarus.

From Science Daily

Conservatives would be the sun to Gay’s Icarus, demonstrating just how hot they could make things for her.

From Seattle Times

Data from the Armagh Observatory and weather stations all over Ireland has been analysed by researchers at the Icarus Climate Research Centre in Maynooth University.

From BBC