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463 B
Markdown
9 lines
463 B
Markdown
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name: Sham (α Sge)
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constellation: Sge
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created_by: 8mag
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created_date: 2022-01-21 17:00:00
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updated_by: skybber
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updated_date: 2022-02-11 15:29:58.467834
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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. |