Project Icarus
In early 1967, Professor Paul Sandorff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave his students in a systems engineering class the task to devise a plan to destroy Icarus in the case that it was on a collision course with Earth. This plan is known as Project Icarus. Time magazine ran an article on the endeavor in June 1967 and the following year the student report was published as a book. This report was the basis and inspiration for the 1979 science fiction film Meteor.
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