Alpha Fornacis B
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Temperature: 5500 K
Alpha Fornacis B is a cool class G dwarf in the Fornacis system. It is the smaller and fainter of the two components of the binary system.
The system primary Fornacis A is coming close to ceasing hydrogen fusion in its core if it has not done so already. However lower mass Fornacis B still has a long way to go before it suffers the same fate, a few billion years or so.
The two stars orbit each other with a 269 year period at an average distance of 56 Astronomical Units. The elliptical orbit takes them from a maximum of 97 AU apart to a minimum of 15.
