G star

G star

noun Astronomy.
a yellow star, as the sun or Capella, having a surface temperature between 5000 and 6000 K and an absorption spectrum in which the ultraviolet pair of lines of singly ionized calcium are strongest and in which the Balmer series is prominent.
Compare spectral type.
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G star is always a great word to know.
So is meteoroid. Does it mean:
any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor
a system of two stars that revolve about a common center of mass
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