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	Alderamin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alderamin is the proper name of the ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior) star α Cephei in the (A configuration of stars as seen from the earth) constellation of (A faint constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cassiopeia and the pole star) Cepheus.
		Alderamin is a fairly (A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system) sun-like star, albeit somewhat hotter and more massive.
		Alderamin is noted for having an unusually fast rotation, although the effects of this rotation are not well understood.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Alderamin.htm (138 words)

	Cepheus
		In China, somewhere within this constellation's boundaries, was the 'Inner Throne of the Five Emperors'.
		The later Hindus knew Cepheus as Capuja, adopted from Greece; but Hewitt claims that with their prehistoric ancestors it represented Kapi, the Ape-God, when its stars alpha and gamma, Alderamin and Alrai, were the respective pole-stars of 21,000 and 19,000 BC.
		Arabian astronomers translated Greek writings; but the nomads knew Cepheus, or at least some of its stars, as Al Agimim, the Sheep (the Koran forbade a human depiction), and thus associated with the supposed 'Fold'; Cepheus is a large figure around the pole.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Cepheus.html (2091 words)

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