Pollux

1. Pollux A chilling tale By: B. Nickoli Kue

2. Pollux’s Stats • Pollux is 1.86 M. M stands for solar mass. 1m is equal to the size of the sun, 1030 , or Quintillion grams. Pollux is about 1.7 times bigger than the Sun. • Pollux is 4,865° Kelvin. The Sun is 5778° Kelvin. • Pollux is a orange star, the Sun is a yella’ giant. • Pollux is 33.7 ± 0.3 light years from the Sun, that’s 10.34 ± 0.09 parsecs ("parallax of one arcsecond", symbol pc) • A Parsec is a unit of length, equal to just under 31 million million kilometers (about 19 million million miles), or about 3.26 light-years. Scale 1 R = 1 °F = 5⁄9 °C = 5⁄9 K

3. Hertzsprung–Russell diagram

4. The Story of Pollux The name Pollux refers specifically to Castor and Pollux, the sons of Leda. The star also is known as Al-Ras al-Tau'am al-Mu'akhar,(الرأس التؤام المؤخر), in Arabic. Literally, 'The Head of the Second Twin.' Historically, the Chinese recognized Pollux as Yang, which in ancient philosophy was one of the two fundamental principles upon which all things depend. Castor and Pollux together correspond to the Nakshatra Punarvasu in Hindu astronomy. In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux (in Greek, Kástōr and Polydeúkēs - Κάστωρ καὶ Πολυδεύκης) were the twin sons of Lēda and Zeus/Tyndareus (Pollux's father was Zeus, Castor's was Tyndareus), the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and the half-brothers of Timandra, Phoebe, Heracles and Philonoe. They are known collectively in Greek as the Dioskouroi or Dioscuri (Διόσκουροι), "sons of Zeus", and in Latin as the Gemini ("twins") or Castores. Castor means "beaver" in both Greek and Latin, and polydeukes means "much sweet wine". They are sometimes also termed the Tyndaridae (Τυνδαρίδαι) in reference to their alternative fatherhood by TyndareusIn the myth the twins shared the same mother but had different fathers which meant that Pollux was immortal and Castor was mortal. When Castor died, Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together and they were transformed into the Gemini constellation. The pair were regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo's fire.

5. Long Lived King Pollux… Pollux has 1.7 times more mass than the Sun, which leads scientists to belive that it is older than the Sun, and will die sooner. Pollux is belived to born from a Nebula, just as the Sun was. Pollux

6. SITED WORKES • http://www.wikipeidia.com • http://images.google.com • Dina Prialnik (2000). An Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution. Cambridge University Press. chapter 10.