Baten Kaitos (star)

Baten Kaitos A
Spectral	K0 III
Type	Giant
Multiple	Binary
Luminosity	240 LSol
Absolute magnitude
Mag Terra	3.742
Temperature	4580° K
Mass	2.34 MSol
Radius	25 RSol
Companion	Baten Kaitos B

Baten Kaitos B
Spectral	?
Type	?
Multiple	Companion
Luminosity	? LSol
Absolute magnitude	?
Temperature	?° K
Radius	? RSol

The star Baten Kaitos (otherwise known as Zeta Ceti) is a binary star system whose primary star is a light yellow-orange giant star of spectral class K0.

Description (Specifications)

The Baten Kaitos system is a binary composed of a K0 III giant star (Baten Kaitos A) orbited by an unseen companion (Baten Kaitos B) with a period of 1652 days at a distance of about 5AU, with a high eccentricity of 0.59.

• The Baten Kaitos star system lies approximately 72.0 pc from Terra, and is located in a Spinward/Spinrimward direction from Terra at bearing 165.9^o Galactic Longitude and -68.0^o South Galactic Latitude.

History & Background (Dossier)

No Information currently available.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This article has metadata.

This article is missing content for one or more detailed sections. Additional details are required to complete the article. You can help the Traveller Wiki by expanding it.

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Zeta_Ceti. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• MegaTraveller CD-ROM: Preliminary Traveller Map (Hand-drawn)
• EXTERNAL LINK: SIMBAD @ University of Strasbourg: [1]
• EXTERNAL LINK: STARS (University of Illinois - Prof. Jim Kaler): [2]
• Author & Contributor: WHULorigan