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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(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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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 (redirect from Fomalhaut B)
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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List of eponyms (A–K) (section B)
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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