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Old 04-27-2008, 05:41 PM
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The Big Dipper and the Little Dipper are made up of stars at many different distances - so defining a distance to an asterism (part of a constellation) doesn;t make sense
The wikipedia entry on the Big Dipper lists the distances to the individual stars.
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