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  "thread": {
    "id": 634,
    "subject": "5HC star hunt",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-18T20:33:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-18T20:33:00+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0067@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-18T20:33:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 5HC star hunt",
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          "text": "Hey, Cerberus-heads!\n\nLet's find the star of Saint Anne/Saint Croix!  Let's work out the\nother planets in the system!\n\nThe clues I have at hand are few:\n\n1.  We are told that Marsh aged \"20 years Newtonian\" in his trip,\nsuggesting that the star is within 20 lightyears of Sol (since the\nship would seem to be travelling sublight).\n\n2.  We are told that Sol is located in the tail of \"the Fighting\nLizard\" constellation.  This could be made up, or it could be either\nconstellation Lacerta (located at 22h 20m 35N) or Chameleon (11h 30m\n80S).  For Sol to appear within these constellations, the viewpoint\nstar would (I think) have to be located around either (10h 40m 35S)\nor (23h 30m 80N).\n\n3.  We are told that one local year on St. Anne is 402 days . . . do\nwe have any hint as to the length of the local day?  (This can be\nused to calculate orbital distance for St. A/St. C around their star,\nwhich in turn can give a hint as to stellar class, etc.)\n\n4.  The sunlight/star is \"pink,\" which might mean stellar class K or M.\n\nThere are a few other constellations mentioned which might or might not\nbe translatable into ones we know.\n\n CONSTELLATIONS\n Fever\n Shadow Child (with \"two bright star eyes\"--hel-lo, Hethor!)\n The Snow Woman (planet?)\n Five Flowers\n Seeing Seed\n Swift (planet, probably inner, ala Mercury)\n Valley of Milk (\"Milky Way\"?)\n Dead Man (planet)\n Lost Wishes\n Burning Hair Woman\n Bearded Five Legs\n Rose of Amethyst, aka Thousand Feelers and the Fish\n Eye of Cold (star)\n\nSome easy guesses.  Well yes, there is a Wolf series of stars,\nseveral within 20 light years of Sol:\n\nWolf 359 -- (10h 54m 7N), 7.6 light years (class M8e)\nWolf 28  -- (0h 46m 5N), 13.9 light years (class DG)\nWolf 424 -- (12h 31m 9N), 14.2 light years (double star, both M6e)\nWolf 294 -- (6h 52m 33N), 19.4 light years (class M4)\nWolf 630 -- (16h 53m 8S), 20.3 light years (four star system, M4, M5)\n\nAnd no, there doesn't seem to be anything around those \"opposite\"\nareas for Chameleon or Lacerta.\n\nSo!  Any other clues in the text--Robert Borski (and other 5HC-fans)?\n\nYour partner in over-reading,\n\n=mantis="
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