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    Lambda Ursae Minoris (λ UMi, λ Ursae Minoris) is a star in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is an M-type red giant with an apparent magnitude of +6.38...
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    Ursa Minor (redirect from 3 Ursae Minoris)
    the night sky, ranging in apparent magnitude from 1.97 to 2.00. Beta Ursae Minoris, also known as Kochab, is an aging star that has swollen and cooled...
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    the 1908 Revised Harvard Photometry catalogue. The Pole Star and Lambda Ursae Minoris were used for the northern hemisphere. It was then noted that "Neither...
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    around 1700 BC until just after 300 AD, Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris) and Pherkad (Gamma Ursae Minoris) were twin northern pole stars, though neither was...
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    considered the pole star until about 1800 BC, when the much brighter Beta Ursae Minoris (Kochab) began to approach the pole as well. Having gradually drifted...
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    arrives at the North Celestial Pole and the star Polaris (α UMi/Alpha Ursae Minoris), the North Star. Rigil Kentaurus (α Centauri) and Hadar (β Centauri)...
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  • Sigma Sagittarii Star 2.07 Alpha Ophiuchi Binary star system 2.08 Beta Ursae Minoris Star 2.10 Gamma Andromedae Quadruple star system 2.11 2.0 Beta Gruis...
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    (al-)Fākhitah the Dove فاخثة Alpha Columbae Phad (al-)Fakhidh the Thigh فخذ Gamma Ursae Majoris Pherkad (al-)Farqad the Calf فرقد Gamma Ursae Minoris...
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  • Puppis Azmidi Alternatively rendered Asmidiske. /ˈæzmᵻdi/ Ursa Minor 8 Ursae Minoris Baekdu IAU new 2019 South Korean proposal; named after the highest mountain...
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    B flare stars B M? 0.11 13.27 15.58 C M? 0.10 14.03 16.34 Alpha Canis Minoris Procyon (A)$ 11.402 ±0.032 CMi* 07h 39m 18.1s +05° 13′ 30″ F5IV–V 1.499...
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    21h 06m 53.94s +38° 44′ 57.9″ 11.4 B K7.0V 6.05 8.33 Procyon (α Canis Minoris) A F5IV-V 0.40 2.68 07h 39m 18.12s +05° 13′ 30.0″ 11.5 ε Indi K5Ve 4.69...
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    Tauri) 45.1 Fourteenth brightest star in the night sky. Polaris (α Ursae Minoris) 37.5 The current star in the North Pole. It is a Classical Cepheid...
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    with a period of 547,000 (+66,000/-40,000) years. Polaris or Alpha Ursae Minoris (α UMi), the north star, is a triple star system in which the closer...
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    values as of 2015: H0=67.74 and OmegaM=0.3089 (see Table/Planck2015 at "Lambda-CDM model#Parameters" ) "UCLA Cosmological Calculator". UCLA. 2018. Retrieved...
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  • (1999-06-01). "Masses and Other Parameters of the Post-Common Envelope Binary BE Ursae Majoris". The Astrophysical Journal. 518 (2): 866–872. Bibcode:1999ApJ....
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    (2007-01-01). "MOST Detects g-Modes in the Late-Type Be Star β Canis Minoris (B8 Ve)". The Astrophysical Journal. 654 (1): 544–550. arXiv:astro-ph/0609460...
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