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Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Veega
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Date: Wed, 17-Aug-83 21:59:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 17 21:59:00 1983
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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>.