Monday, August 29, 2011

Constellation?

I need to know some facts about gemini's constellation. I already got one. I need at least 3. Help I need this info like today. Thank you.|||The brightest star, Castor, is a sextuple system (has six stars), and the second brightest star, Pollux, has a planet. The planet is 2.9 times more massive than Jupiter, and takes 589.64 days to orbit it at a distance of 1.69 AU (whereas 1 AU is the distance from Earth to the sun). The planet was announced in 2006 and follows an almost circular orbit. Pollux is also a variable star, changing in brightness over time.|||.





In astrology, Gemini is the 3rd zodiacal sign, and it falls within the period of May 21 and June 21. The element of Gemini is air.





Gemini [Lat.,=the twins], northern constellation lying on the ecliptic (the sun's apparent path through the heavens) between Taurus and Cancer, N of Canis Minor; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac . Gemini is traditionally depicted as two men. The two brightest stars in Gemini, Castor and Pollux (north of the bright star Procyon in Canis Minor), are two of the brightest stars in the sky and were identified by the Greeks with two children, in most accounts the twin sons of Zeus and Leda. The Egyptians identified the two stars with a pair of young goats. An annual meteor shower known as the Geminids appears to radiate from this constellation during the second week in December. Owing to the precession of the equinoxes , the summer solstice now lies in Gemini, rather than in Cancer as it did 2,000 years ago. Gemini reaches its highest point in the evening sky in February.|||It lies in the Zodiac belt between Taurus and Cancer


It is in the winter sky


It is known as "The Twins"





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(con鈥?/a>|||The two "heads" of the twins are Castor and Pollux. Castor appears blue and Pollux appears yellow-orange.

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