# Menkent

> star in the constellation Centaurus

**Wikidata**: [Q14225](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14225)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_Centauri)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/menkent


## References

1. SIMBAD
2. Source
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. Catalogue of Stellar Photometry in Johnson's 11-color system
5. A new Large Magellanic Cloud K-band distance from precision measurements of nearby red clump stars
6. Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction
7. Pulkovo Compilation of Radial Velocities for 35 495 Hipparcos stars in a common system
8. CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES). I. Sample definition and first results: Three new planets orbiting giant stars