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  2. Ursa Minor - Wikipedia

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    Ursa Minor (Latin for 'Lesser Bear', contrasting with Ursa Major), also known as the Little Bear, is a constellation located in the far northern sky.As with the Great Bear, the tail of the Little Bear may also be seen as the handle of a ladle, hence the North American name, Little Dipper: seven stars with four in its bowl like its partner the Big Dipper.

  3. RU Ursae Minoris - Wikipedia

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    RU Ursae Minoris is a binary star system in the constellation Ursa Minor.Its apparent magnitude ranges from 10 to 10.66 over 0.52 days as one star passes in front of the other relative to observers on Earth. [3]

  4. Category:Ursa Minor - Wikipedia

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  5. T Ursae Minoris - Wikipedia

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    T Ursae Minoris (T UMi) is a variable star in the constellation Ursa Minor, located 2′ 30″ west-southwest of 3 Ursae Minoris toward the western border of the constellation with Draco. [ 8 ] Properties

  6. Pi1 Ursae Minoris - Wikipedia

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    Pi 1 Ursae Minoris [14] is a common proper motion binary star [15] system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. The pair have apparent visual magnitudes of +6.58 and +7.31, with a combined magnitude of 6.1. [2] They are located about 71 light years from the Sun.

  7. RR Ursae Minoris - Wikipedia

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    RR Ursae Minoris, abbreviated RR UMi, is a binary star [13] system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. It can be viewed with the naked eye, typically having an apparent visual magnitude of around 4.710. [10] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.1 mas [8] as seen from Earth's orbit, it is located 460 light years away.

  8. R Ursae Minoris - Wikipedia

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    R Ursae Minoris is a star in the constellation Ursa Minor. A red giant of spectral type M7IIIe, it is a semiregular variable ranging from magnitude 8.5 to 11.5 over a period of 325 days. [3] In 1881, Edward Charles Pickering announced that the star, at that time unnamed, is a variable star. [8]

  9. Lambda Ursae Minoris - Wikipedia

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    Lambda Ursae Minoris (λ UMi, λ Ursae Minoris) is a star in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is an M-type red giant with an apparent magnitude of +6.38, making it very faintly visible to the naked eye under the best observing conditions. It is approximately 880 light years from Earth.