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The name, introduced about 200 years ago by Giuseppe Piazza, the Italian astronomer who, among other things, discovered the first planet Ceres, is based on the Old Arabic name Sahm - arrow. This yellow giant of spectral class G0 has a brightness of 4.4mag and is 382ly distant. It has four faint guides.