List of bright stars with Hipparcos catalog number
List of bright stars with Hipparcos catalog number.
data(bright.stars)
A data frame with 96 observations on the following 2 variables.
Common name of star
HIP number for identification
The source of star names goes back to the Greeks and Arabs. Few are modern. This is a list of 96 common stars.
Form the Hipparcos website http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/ident6.html.
data(bright.stars) all.names = paste(bright.stars$name, sep="", collapse="") x = unlist(strsplit(tolower(all.names), "")) letter.dist = sapply(letters, function(i) sum(x == i)) data(scrabble) # for frequency info p = scrabble$frequency[1:26];p=p/sum(p) chisq.test(letter.dist, p=p) # compare with English
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