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- proper noun informal Abbreviation of
Alpha Centauri .
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After I left the theater, I was explaining to one of my friends that based on the stated travel time by the cryosleep doctor, and the distance to Alpha Cen, one could work out the ship's velocity profile consistent with relativity.
Discover Blogs 2009
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During the last interglacial period, Alpha Cen did not rank among the brightest stars in the sky.
systemic 2008
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Right now, Alpha Cen A and B are more than 20 AU apart, but within our lifetimes, they'll close to nearly the Earth-Saturn distance as they reach the next periastron of their 80-year orbit in May 2035.
systemic 2008
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We're fortunate that we've arrived on the scene as a technological society right at the moment when a stellar system as interesting as Alpha Cen is in the very near vicinity.
systemic 2008
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A hundred thousand years from now, the Alpha Cen stars will no longer be among our very nearest stellar neighbors, and in a million years, they will have long since faded from naked-eye visibility.
systemic 2008
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In the interim since the last oklo. org update, Debra Fischer obtained one year of NSF funding to begin high-cadence radial velocity observations of the Alpha Cen system with the CTIO 1. 5m telescope in Chile.
systemic 2008
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