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82 Eridani |
 | | 82 Eridani is located only about 19.8 light-years (ly) away in the southern part (03:19:55.65-43:04:11.22, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Eridanus, the River -- southeast of Acamar (Theta1 Eridani). |
 | | As 82 Eridani has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF-C team. |
 | | Indeed, 82 Eridani's low metallicity and high space velocity, and its substantial galactic orbital eccentricity (e= 0.40) suggest that it may be more than 10 billion years old (see Table 1 for HD 20794 in Olin Jeuck Eggen, 1998 (1919-1998); and John B. |
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