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LP 816-60

Star in the constellation Capricornus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ15709567 ↗
Source-derived summary

LP 816-60 is a single red dwarf star of spectral type M4, located in constellation Capricornus at 18.33 light-years from Earth.

The discovery name of this star is LP 816-60, which indicates that its discovery was published between 1963 and 1981 in University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. LP 816-60 is known at least from 1979, when it was included to Luyten's catalogue NLTT.

No massive planets were detected around LP 816-60 as of 2013.

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“LP 816-60” enters the record as star in the constellation Capricornus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 816-60, Star and constellation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1981, 1979, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 816-60, Star and constellation.
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“LP 816-60” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, 816-60, Star and constellation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15709567. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963, 1981, 1979 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “LP 816-60” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.