[Chaos-l] Durham and the pleiades

[Terry Crook]

So, do we suppose there's a correlation here? :-)
I like this explanation better than the Wikipedia account.

Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W


On 6/16/2011 9:25 PM, MIKE AND BOBI GALLAGHER wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:bertfurey at yahoo.com>>/* wrote:
>
>
>         From: Bert Furey <bertfurey at yahoo.com
>         <mailto:bertfurey at yahoo.com>>
>         Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Durham and the pleiades
>         To: chaos-l at rtpnet.org <mailto: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 <mailto:rtphokie at gmail.com>>
>         *To:* CHAOS <chaos-l at rtpnet.org <mailto: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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