[Chaos-l] Durham and the pleiades

[MIKE AND BOBI GALLAGHER]

I read today that the Pleiades have a lot of B-type stars, which are
massive, bright, and don't live very long, just some hundreds of millions of
years. All the B-type stars in the Hyades have gone poof.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Patrick Moore <prmo at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> There is no astronomical significance to the stars on the Durham flag.
>
> See here for an explanation:
> http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-nc-du.html#des
>
> Pat
>
> --- On *Thu, 6/16/11, Bert Furey <bertfurey at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Bert Furey <bertfurey at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Durham and the pleiades
> To: chaos-l at rtpnet.org
> Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 5:07 PM
>
>
>  I think it has to do with Durham being the Bull city and the Pleiades
> being in Taurus.
>
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> *From:* Tony Rice <rtphokie at gmail.com>
> *To:* CHAOS <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
> *Sent:* Fri, June 3, 2011 11:32:06 PM
> *Subject:* [Chaos-l] Durham and the pleiades
>
> Wikipedia claims that the pleiades are represented on the Durham city
> logo (http://www.ci.durham.nc.us/). Those stars do look pleiades-like
> but I always questions something I can only find on WIkipedia.  Any
> truth to this claim?  If so, what is the connection there?  What does
> Durham have to do with the astronomy?
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