To: green team 1999
I thought Proxima Centauri was the closest star. Help!
5 posted on
04/19/2003 4:13:54 AM PDT by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
Yea, Proxima is the closest.
Alpha is the brightest of three stars known as the Alpha Centauri system, which is Centauri A (Alpha) and B. Proxima is somtimes called Centauri C. But I don't believe it is a part of the true binary system of A and B. It may just be temporarily trapped. But it is closer than the two binary stars.
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan; clifdweller; green team 1999
8 posted on
04/19/2003 9:00:40 PM PDT by
petuniasevan
(I'm a lefty. Left-handed. The only kind of lefty I've ever been.)
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