30-June-2009, 07:43 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 13,461
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
[...] I suspect that Canopus and Sol have been together, perhaps with other stars in the region as shown at the 250LY atlas, for all of the five billion years since Sol came into being.
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Got any data, besides your suspicion, to back that claim up?
Space.com: The Crazy Cosmos: Stars Near Sun are Wild & Wayward:
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"The Sun has made some 20 laps around the galactic center since it was born, and its 'sisters and brothers' have dispersed long ago," Andersen said of any stars that might have been born near the Sun.
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