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New paper
edit- On the Anomalous Acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua Darryl Seligman, Gregory Laughlin, Konstantin Batygin (Submitted on 12 Mar 2019)
Orthography
editElsewhere on Wiki, the initial character of the name is called an ʻokina ; it's not a diacritic, but an unicameral (no "capital" form) letter. Using the UNICODE character \x02BB (in HTML, "& #x02bb ;" without the spaces ; decimal 699) is recommended in preference to apostrophes, back-ticks or other approximations. Since Wiki can handle this, it's what should be used. Most of the rest of Hawaiʈian script is Latin/ Roman characters. And yes, that is an ʻokina in both "ʻokina" and "Hawaiʻi". (I only just found this out myself.)
"Part of the sky"
edit- But as a nearby star, Vega was not in the same part of the sky at that time
Speaking as a non-astronomer: to me, "part of the sky" means the apparent constellation it's found in. But the rest of that para is about Vega's distance from the Sun at the time. Am I misunderstanding it, or is it a phrasing problem? Marnanel (talk) 14:56, 19 January 2024 (UTC)