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A poem in which 70 Ophiuchi is invoked.

Palindrome: Kraken ARG: Ngranek ark.

"[T]he unnamed planet in the 1970 tv series UFO is described as being at a distance that well matches 70 Oph ("100 million million miles" = 17LY).."

“Upon seeing Utah for the first time, Tarkovsky remarked that now he knew Americans were vulgar because they filmed westerns in a place that should only serve as backdrop to films about God.” --@fvrmvn via @LeeBillings

You can still read about Jacob's Planet. (It was being taken seriously as late as 1943.) Others might think "See's Planet" is a better claim--who first calculated the orbit--, or until 1978 & Heinz, anyway...

I don't have handy my calculations about the farthest planet dynamically possible for each of the stars*, but i know i chose the solvent chlorine trifluoride because i had discovered it was a non-protonic solvent with a reasonably broad liquid range, & though UNLIKELY, could not be said to be IMPOSSIBLE**. The biochemical equation, i think, i came up with involved gaseous SiF4 (aka "tetrafluorosilane") & fluorosilicate-based life... The secondary sun, having been described as "violet" (like very few other stars) deserves something more exotic than, ahem "New Persia"--oh wait, that's 70 Ophiuchi A.

Just don't call it Sikun.

Scaling Ngranek.

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* I see that it's somewhere around 4.8 AU for star B, or a maximum period of 10.9 years (so much for 17 or 18--!).
** The calculated planet would have a "year" of 401.6 days