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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6068. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Stellar Populations And Star Clusters

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M68 is a very metal-poor globular cluster in Hydra, very similar to M30. It is a large and loosely spread object at high galactic latitude and has been studied mainly for its age and its metallicity. It is thought to be around 13 billion years old (i.e. identical in age, within the errors, to M15), but the exact metallicity is difficult to determine since the indicators lose sensitivity at the lo...

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