Peter van de Kamp

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Peter van de Kamp

astronomer

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Milky Way Galaxy
Space motions
…on the Dutch-born American astronomer Peter van de Kamp’s table of stars within 17 light-years, excluding the star of greatest anomalous velocity, reveal that dispersions in the V direction and the W direction are approximately half the size of the dispersion in the U direction. This is an indication of…
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…on the Dutch-born American astronomer Peter van de Kamp’s table of stars within 17 light-years, excluding the star of greatest anomalous velocity, reveal that dispersions in the V direction and the W direction are approximately half the size of the dispersion in the U direction. This is an indication of…
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