Talk:Capella (star)

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Help with this template Comments: edit – history – watch – refresh The article says Alpha Centauri is the nearest bright star. Surely it should be Aldebaran?

The "Akkadian" line info should be deleted entirely; it has nothing to do with Capella and is seriously out of date. What the writer has transliterated as Dilgan iku should be read: Sumerian aš.iku "1 iku (measure)" lent into Akkadian as ikû. An iku is the basic Sumerian measure of square area, ca. 3528 sq. meters. The celestial iku refers to the big square figure within the constellation Pegasus, i.e. α, β, γ Pegasi plus α Andromedae. Dubsarmah 16:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelbusch (talk • contribs)

• This talk page is showing up in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. I don't know why, but it shouldn't be there. --Metropolitan90 04:02, 28 October 2007 (UTC)