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Old 08-29-2006, 05:57 PM   #15
Wombat
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Maybe nobody noticed it 300 years ago because it was a very cloudy week.

Although, presumably a star that big and that close would have been in a constellation chart and someone must have noticed at some point that it was gone.
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