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469 B
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name: Sham (α Sge)
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constellation: Sge
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created_by: editor.cs
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created_date: 2023-11-05 15:42:10.136979
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updated_by: editor.cs
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updated_date: 2023-11-05 15:42:10.136983
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The name, introduced about 200 years ago by Giuseppe Piazzi, an Italian astronomer who discovered the first asteroid Ceres, is based on the ancient Arabic name Sahm - arrow. This yellow giant of spectral class G0 has a brightness of 4.4mag and is located 382ly away. It has four faint companions. |