--- On Mon, 5/18/09, erikhansen@TheBlueZone.net <erikhansen@TheBlueZone.net> wrote:
From: erikhansen@TheBlueZone.net <erikhansen@TheBlueZone.net> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Albireo: a double star? To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 3:24 PM
I searched the web for Hipparcos info no luck, good luck to somebody else, I am sure they don't refer to it as Alberio.
Chuck, I suggest we see if it gets down to liberal vs conservative POV. As a liberal I say it is a physical pair.
Erik: The Wiki data references the Hipparcos data in the footnotes. Hipparcos did extend our knowledge greatly over what we could gleen from the ground, but it left the Albireo question unresolved. A newer more powerful Astrometry satellite named Gaia is supposed to greatly extend our reach for this type of question. In the mean time we need to remember that male support group on the Red Green show where men try to learn the three little words that are so hard for them to say....."I don't know". DT