Project Icarus Systems Engineering

by MIT Students and . MIT Student Project in Systems Engineering

How to prevent a four billion-ton asteroid from colliding with the earth; a technological fantasy by the MIT Students System Project. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262630680
• ISBN13: 9780262630689
• Release Date: September 1979
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher