Beta Canum Venaticorum

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Beta Canum Venaticorum

Beta Canum Venaticorum (Chara, Asterion, Gliese 475, Chang Chen Si) - Singular yellow dwarf (G0) located 27 light-years from Earth. Widely noted as a solar analog, BCV is older and poorer in metals (96 percent of Sol). Its system includes five rocky planets and three gaseous major planets, all in near-circular orbits. The system is best known for its fourth planet, Commonwealth, which is habitable by humans.

Planets and satellites
#	Name	Classification	Orbit (AUs)	Earth Masses

I	Donatello	Hermean	.33	.33
II	Fan Kuan	Cytherian	.68	4.0
III	Kahlo	Eosian-Pelagic	1.01	.80
IV	Commonwealth	Terran-Gaean-Pontic	1.29	1.24
IVa	Rodrigo	Arean		.11
V	Fujiwara	Tethysian	2.9	7.45
VI	Sundaram	Jovian	7.7	44.2
VII	Friedrich	Jovian	21.3	575.60
VIII	Warhol	Callistan	44.79	.72

KH Events
Destination	Owner	Opened	Location

DG Canum Venaticorum	United Nations	2110	Commonwealth- Rodrigo L-5
Gliese 450	China	2110	Donatello
GJ 1151	United Nations	2115	Commonwealth Trailing Trojan
Hussey 644	Brazil, Israel	2119	Commonwealth Leading Trojan

Last updated 16DEC2138

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