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phil — 11/16/2006 1:38:19 AM (archived)

No stars closer than the Centauri triplet will be found. One more time, the RECON 'discoveries' were measuring the paralax of known red dwarfs. Closer than Centauri would most likely have LARGE proper motion. We can 'see' L Type brown dwarfs out to many 10s of LY these days.

Odds ar that there are dozens more faint reddish stars closer than 30pc once all the paralaxes are measured. But not stars within 1pc.

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Twenty New Stellar Neighbors - LJK - 11/14/2006 8:56:54 PM
- re: Twenty New Stellar Neighbors - SDF - 11/16/2006 8:02:40 AM
  - Brown dwarfs are not dark - ER - 11/18/2006 4:55:10 AM
  - They aren't dark (n/t) - alcaray - 11/17/2006 4:14:20 PM
  - In my limited understanding of the matter...No. - Scott Evil - 11/16/2006 9:43:24 PM
  - Catching a bullet: direct evidence for the existence of dark matter - LJK - 11/16/2006 2:01:07 PM
- Red Dwarfs - REB - 11/15/2006 2:19:56 PM
  - re: Red Dwarfs - Adam - 11/16/2006 9:50:14 PM
- re: Twenty New Stellar Neighbors - TB - 11/15/2006 12:16:58 AM
  - The chances are actually pretty good - ER - 11/15/2006 6:54:34 PM
    - I'll take the bet against - phil - 11/16/2006 1:38:19 AM
      - But there's a long shot... - ER - 11/16/2006 2:37:45 AM
        
        re: But there's a long shot... - phil - 11/16/2006 10:00:58 PM
        
        Understood. Thanks. (n/t) - ER - 11/17/2006 6:02:04 PM
    - re: Those stars are also very very old! (n/t) - Raoul - 11/15/2006 7:22:26 PM
    - Gimme a D... - LJK - 11/15/2006 6:57:14 PM
  - Unlikely - phil - 11/15/2006 3:09:37 AM
- There goes the 'hood. Time to move, Ma. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/14/2006 9:44:00 PM
  - The Monitor project: Searching for occultations in young open clusters - LJK - 11/15/2006 7:06:42 PM
    - Characterization of Gravitational Microlensing Planetary Host Stars - LJK - 11/16/2006 1:50:14 PM

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