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==The Star==
 
==The Star==
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Epsilon Indi is a orange-red main sequence star of spectral class K4-5 Ve.  At first the star was believed to be considerably older then our [[Sun]] because of its slow rotation.  New observations revealed the star has a much higher rotational speed, which now suggests that it may only be between one and two billion years old, with the likely age of around 1.3 billion years.
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Epsilon Indi is a orange-red main sequence star of spectral class K4-5 Ve.   
    
The star has some 77 percent of the mass of our Sun<ref>http://www.chara.gsu.edu/RECONS/</ref>, and some 76 percent of its diameter<ref>http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983ApJS...53..643J</ref>.  Because it is a cooler class K star, Epsilon Indi is only 14.5 percent as luminous as our Sun.  The [[metallicity]] of Epsilon Indi is estimated from 59 to 110 percent that of our Sun, based on its abundance of [[iron]]<ref>http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1992A%26AS...95..273C</ref>.
 
The star has some 77 percent of the mass of our Sun<ref>http://www.chara.gsu.edu/RECONS/</ref>, and some 76 percent of its diameter<ref>http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983ApJS...53..643J</ref>.  Because it is a cooler class K star, Epsilon Indi is only 14.5 percent as luminous as our Sun.  The [[metallicity]] of Epsilon Indi is estimated from 59 to 110 percent that of our Sun, based on its abundance of [[iron]]<ref>http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1992A%26AS...95..273C</ref>.
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