David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS@sri-unix.UUCP (08/13/83)
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REM@MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (08/18/83)
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>
Date: Saturday, 13 August 1983 14:56:22 EDT
From: David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS
The articles posted to the net give Vega's distance as 26 light years.
My 1980 Information Please Almanac gives it as 23 light years as of
January, 1979.
A chart of nearby (17 ly or closer) and bright (1st magnitude or
brighter) stars in Sky&Telescope (1982 Sept, page 254) lists Vega as
26.5 lightyears from here. I guess that means the almanac has an error
and "needs to be rewritten" <exaggeration>.David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS@sri-unix.UUCP (08/18/83)
Thank you for the correction.