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Tau and Ceti
Tau Ceti is noted for being the nearest Sun-like star at a distance of 11. 9 light-years.
Lambda, Mu, Xi, Nu, Gamma, and Alpha Ceti represented its head ; Omicron, Zeta, and Chi Ceti represented its body ; Eta Eri, Tau Cet, and Upsilon Cet marked its legs and feel ; and Theta, Eta, and Beta Ceti delineated its tail.
* Plateau in the Tau Ceti system is Venus-like, with a plateau ( called Mount Lookitthat ), half the size of California, rising high enough out of the dense atmosphere to be habitable.
Drake used a radio telescope 26 meters in diameter at Green Bank, West Virginia, to examine the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani near the 1. 420 gigahertz marker frequency, a region of the radio spectrum dubbed the " water hole " due to its proximity to the hydrogen and hydroxyl radical spectral lines.
Tau Ceti ( τ Cet, τ Ceti ) is a star in the constellation Cetus that is spectrally similar to the Sun, although it has only about 78 % of the Sun's mass.
Tau Ceti is metal-deficient and so is thought to be less likely to host rocky planets.
Observations have detected more than ten times as much dust surrounding Tau Ceti as is present in the Solar System.
Astrometric or radial velocity measurements have not yet detected companions around Tau Ceti, but given current search refinement, this only excludes substellar companions such as large brown dwarfs.
Because of its debris disk, any planet orbiting Tau Ceti would face far more impact events than the Earth.
Given its stability, similarity and relative proximity to the Sun, Tau Ceti is consistently listed as a target for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ), and it appears in some science fiction literature.
Tau Ceti does not have a widely-recognized traditional name.
As seen from Tau Ceti, the Sun would be a third-magnitude star in the constellation Boötes .< ref group =" nb "> From Tau Ceti the Sun would appear on the diametrically opposite side of the sky at the coordinates RA =, Dec =, which is located near Tau Boötis.
Tau Ceti, the Bayer designation for this star, was established in 1603 as part of the Uranometria, a star catalogue produced by German celestial cartographer Johann Bayer.
Tau Ceti is considered to be a high-proper-motion star, although it only has an annual traverse of just under two arc seconds .< ref group =" nb "> The net proper motion is given by:
In the case of Tau Ceti, the parallax measurements indicate a distance of.
In the case of Tau Ceti, the radial velocity is about − 17 km / s, with the negative value indicating that it is moving toward the Sun.
The distance to Tau Ceti, along with its proper motion and radial velocity, allow the motion of the star through space to be calculated.

Tau and Center
Other locations include the Cincinnati suburb of Clifton ; the Village of Indian Hill ; the University of Cincinnati's McMicken Hall ; Miami University's Upham Hall and the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity House, in Oxford, Ohio ; and the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Severn's character, the second " cybrid " of John Keats, is introduced at the beginning of the novel, at a formal event at Government House on Tau Ceti Center, the primary world of the Hegemony.
Severn, accompanied by Gladstone's aide Leigh Hunt, farcast to Tau Ceti Center, but instead arrive on a world that is an apparent analog of 19th century Earth and, in particular, the city of Rome, where the historical Keats died.
On Tau Ceti Center, Government House is besieged by a furious assembly of citizens.
ASP intended to run a full slate of independent candidates, but its efforts were temporarily thwarted when the Machine orchestrated a takeover of ASP by flooding its first general campus meeting at Ferguson Center with fraternity pledges and members and electing Neal Orr, a freshman member of a fraternity ( Delta Tau Delta ) that belonged to the Machine, as its president.
* Meina Gladstone is the CEO of the Hegemony of Man and Commander in Chief, former senator, residing on Tau Ceti Center
While at Miami University, he joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity and studied in Europe at the Miami University Dolibois European Center, located in Differdange, Luxembourg.

Tau and <
Tau Ceti's belt is only < sup > th </ sup > as dense as the belt around its young neighbor, Epsilon Eridani.
The Bayer designation Tau Serpentis ( τ Ser / τ Serpentis ) is shared by a collection of eight stars, τ < sup > 1 </ sup > Serpentis through τ < sup > 8 </ sup > Serpentis, in the head of the constellation Serpens.
* Tau < sup > 1 </ sup > Serpentis, also designated 9 Serpentis or HD 137471.
* Tau < sup > 2 </ sup > Serpentis, also designated 12 Serpentis or HD 138527.
* Tau < sup > 3 </ sup > Serpentis, also designated 15 Serpentis or HD 139074.
* Tau < sup > 4 </ sup > Serpentis, also desiganted 17 Serpentis or HD 139216.
* Tau < sup > 5 </ sup > Serpentis, also desiganted 18 Serpentis or HD 139225.
* Tau < sup > 6 </ sup > Serpentis, also desiganted 19 Serpentis or HD 140027.
* Tau < sup > 7 </ sup > Serpentis, also desiganted 22 Serpentis or HD 140232.
* Tau < sup > 8 </ sup > Serpentis, also desiganted 26 Serpentis or HD 140729.
Tau < sup > 5 </ sup > Serpentis ( Tau < sup > 5 </ sup > Ser, τ < sup > 5 </ sup > Serpentis, τ < sup > 5 </ sup > Ser ) is a F-type main sequence star in the constellation of Serpens, approximately 160 light-years from Earth.
Tau < sup > 4 </ sup > Serpentis ( Tau < sup > 4 </ sup > Ser, τ < sup > 4 </ sup > Serpentis, τ < sup > 4 </ sup > Ser ) is a M-type bright giant star in the constellation of Serpens, approximately 520 light-years from the Earth.

Tau and >
This yields a net space velocity of :</ ref > This result can then be used to compute an orbital path of Tau Ceti through the Milky Way galaxy.

Tau and 2
They would rename Tau Boötis b formally as Tau Boötis Ab, retaining the prior form as an informal usage ( using Rule 2, above ).
* Other organizations: IEEE Student Branch, Inter-Fraternity Council, National Panhellenic Council, Lambda Chi Alpha, Chi Phi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Tau, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Delta Zeta, Alpha Phi Omega, Omega Delta Phi, Kappa Delta Chi, Beta Sigma Phi, Delta Sigma Pi, Kappa Theta Chi, Residence Hall Assoc., Student Bar Assoc., Student Government Assoc., Cheerleaders, Code Blue Dance Team, Emerging Leaders, President ’ s Ambassadors, University Programming Council, Accounting Club, American Chemical Society of Students, Criminal Justice Student Assoc., Finance Club, Graduate International Relations Society, International Business Club, Psychology Club, Society of Physics, St. Mary ’ s Society of Mathematicians ( SM )^ 2, Student Educators Assoc.
ADG Flights were deployed to South Vietnam with 2 Squadron at Phan Rang Air Base and No. 1 Operational Support Unit ( 1OSU ) at Vung Tau.
:- First loss was C-123B 56-4370 attached to the 464th TAW which came down on an Operation Ranch Hand ( defoliation ) training flight between Bien Hoa and Vung Tau, SVN on 2 February 1962
Phuoc Tuy was bisected by Route 2, an unsealed road which ran north to the provincial capital of Ba Ria from Saigon, and by Route 15 which as a sealed road running along the south-west extremity of the province between Vung Tau and Saigon and was the main supply route for the movement of stores and equipment landed at the port.
* In a much-publicized case of fraternity hazing, four members of the Chi Tau House at California State University, Chico pleaded guilty to forcing 21-year-old student Matthew Carrington to drink excessive amounts of water while performing calisthenics in a frigid basement as part of initiation rites on February 2, 2005.
!, The Visit of the Tai Tai, Landmarks – Asian Boys Vol. 2, Cinderel-lah !, Animal Farm, Ang Tau Mui, The Woman in A Tree on the Hill, An Occasional Orchid ; set designing The Magic Fundoshi, Boeing Boeing, Landmarks, Ang Tau Mui, Animal Farm, An Occasional Orchid, and Kuo Pao Kun ’ s The Coffin is too Big for the Hole and No Parking on Odd Days ; and acting in The Visit of the Tai Tai, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Emily of Emerald Hill and Animal Farm.
The temperature of Tau Boötis b probably inflates its radius higher ( 1. 2 times ) than Jupiter's.
The apparent visual magnitude of Tau Scorpii is + 2. 8, while parallax measurements yield a distance estimate of roughly 470 light-years ( 150 parsecs ) from Earth.

1.495 seconds.