Kappa Mensae
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kappa-mensae-299-12107971
title:
Kappa Mensae
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Kappa Mensae, Latinized from κ Mensae, is a solitary star in the southern circumpolar constellation Mensa. Its distance of 296 light years based on its parallax shift gives it an apparent magnitude of 5.45, making it faintly visible to the naked eye. However, it is receding from the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of 9.5 km/s. Kappa Mensae has a stellar classification of B9 V, indicating that it is an ordinary B-type main-sequence star. At present it has 3.44 times the mass of the Sun an
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Star in the constellation of Mensa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Mensae
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2023-04-02T12:46:55Z
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