• the Milky Way in the distant past. The discovery of two planets—Kapteyn b and Kapteyn c—was announced in 2014, but had a mixed history of rejections and...
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    look for analogues of photosynthesis. Kapteyn b is a super-Earth orbiting within the habitable zone of Kapteyn's Star, which is 13 light-years away and...
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    include Gliese 581 d & g, Gliese 667 Ce & f, Gliese 682 b & c, Kapteyn b, and Gliese 832 c. HD 85512 b was initially estimated to be potentially habitable...
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    Kapteyn is a lunar impact crater that is near the eastern limb of the Moon, to the west of the crater La Pérouse. West of Kapteyn is the slightly smaller...
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    though its mass remains unknown and its parent star is not a Solar analog. Kapteyn b, discovered in June 2014 is a possible rocky world of about 4.8 Earth...
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    announced around Kapteyn's star, the nearest halo star to Earth, around 13 light years away. However, later research suggests that Kapteyn b is just an artefact...
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    the doppler variations of Kapteyn's Star with the HARPS spectrograph showed that it hosts two super-Earths—Kapteyn b and Kapteyn c, but the existence of...
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  • 14:291-292, 1876 "Innes\' star". simbad.u-strasbg.fr. "Kapteyn b and c: Two Exoplanets Found Orbiting Kapteyn's Star". Sci-News. Archived from the original on...
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    instrument of Kapteyn is a measuring instrument created by the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn around 1886. Using this instrument, Kapteyn analyzed over...
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  • 1088/0004-637X/800/1/59. Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; et al. (2014), "Two planets around Kapteyn's star : a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red-dwarf"...
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    82 G. Eridani (redirect from HD20794 b)
    luminosity; it is about a third more luminous than Tau Ceti or Alpha Centauri B. The projected equatorial rotation rate (v sin i) is 4.0 km/s, compared to...
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  • main scientific contributions refer to stars' proper motions in selected Kapteyn surfaces, astrophotography of galaxies and stars, brown dwarfs, astronomical...
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    original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2015. Bles, Willem; Kapteyn, Theo S.; Brandt, Thomas; Arnold, Friedrich (1 January 1980). "The Mechanism...
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    Procyon (redirect from Procyon B)
    orbit with a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DQZ, named Procyon B. The pair orbit each other with a period of 40.84 years and an eccentricity...
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    (1974) as New Military Governor (uncredited) The Hiding Place (1975) as Kapteyn Erotic Inferno (1975) as Eric Gold Rogue Male (BBC Film) (1976) as Adolf...
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    Observatory, before returning to Europe in 1957 to become director of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen. Blaauw was closely involved in the...
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    motion and the distance of the Praesepe cluster". Publications of the Kapteyn Astronomical Laboratory Groningen. 41: 1–48. Bibcode:1927PGro...41....1K...
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    36 Ophiuchi (redirect from 36 Ophiuchi B)
    the A-B pair by 700 arcseconds, compared to a minimum of 4.6 arcseconds for A-B, so its effect on the movements of the A-B pair is small. A and B have...
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    VB 10 (redirect from VB 10 b)
    primary is called Gliese 752, and hence VB 10 is also referred to as Gliese 752 B. The primary star is much larger and brighter. The two stars are separated...
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    earlier conjecture. In 1904, studying the proper motions of stars, Jacobus Kapteyn reported that these were not random, as it was believed in that time; stars...
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    TW Piscis Austrini (also known as Fomalhaut B) is a main sequence star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. It lies relatively close to the Sun, at...
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    at the University of Utrecht and started his professional career at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen working with Pieter Johannes van Rhijn...
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    of dark matter seemed also proven, confirming its inference by Jacobus Kapteyn, Jan Oort, and Fritz Zwicky in the 1920s and 1930s and demonstrating the...
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    in 1887. Among his students was the prominent Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn. In 1970 the lunar crater Buys-Ballot, on the far side of the Moon, was...
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  • Interstellar calcium detected on spectrograph at Potsdam 1909 — Slipher confirms Kapteyn's theory of interstellar gas 1912 — Slipher confirms interstellar dust 1927 —...
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  • mathematician – Kaprekar constant, Kaprekar number Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer – Kapteyn's Star Anna Karenina, Russian literary character – Anna Karenina...
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    in the eastern part of the Moon. It lies north-northeast of the larger Kapteyn and is to the northwest of La Pérouse. The crater is circular and symmetrical...
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    Altair (redirect from ADS 13009 B)
    National Science Foundation. May 31, 2007. Retrieved 2022-08-03. Knobel, E. B. (June 1895). "Al Achsasi Al Mouakket, on a catalogue of stars in the Calendarium...
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    Cornelius Kapteyn, was teaching there, although Oort was unsure whether he wanted to specialize in physics or astronomy. After studying with Kapteyn, Oort...
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    dependent on how the choice is made for each individual. Stadt, Huib van de; Kapteyn, Arie; Geer, Sara van de (1985). "The Relativity of Utility: Evidence from...
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