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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4999.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4999. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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The star β Geminorum, an orange giant of spectral class K0IIIvar.
At apparent magnitude 1.16 it is the brightest star in Gemini,
suggesting that it may have brightened (or Castor faded) since the Bayer
letters were allocated in 1603. Pollux is rather closer than Castor, at
34 light-years (parallax 0.097''); its absolute magnitude is 1.1....

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