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HIPPARCOS

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HIPPARCOSHigh Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite


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To track the motion of nearby stars as they move across the sky, Benoit Famaey of the Free University of Brussels in Belgium and his collaborators used data from the European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite, which ended its mission in 1993.
If you accepted the Hipparcos result, then our ideas of how stars shine would be wrong," he said.
395 Sapiro, Guillermo 299 Sasisekharan, Ram 232 Satellite altimetry 31 Satellites 52, 216, 308, 398 Satellites, hipparcos 69 Saturn 388 Saunders, Scott 233 Saxon, Andrew 381 Scambos, Ted A.
 
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