Talk:The Star (Clarke short story)

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"Star of Bethlehem"

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The story was also published as "Star of Bethlehem".

which was flagged "Citation needed" in May 2009.

I can find no evidence of publication under this title. The sentence may be based on a careless reading of this passage by Martin Gardner:

One of the most popular and longest lasting of natural explanations of the Star was put forth by Kepler. He suggested in a 1606 tract that the Star was actually a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn that occurred in 7 B.C. in the constellation of Pisces the Fish.

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There are other objections to Kepler’s guess. A much closer meeting of the same two planets occurred in 66 B.C. As Arthur C. Clarke says in his entertaining essay “The Star of Bethlehem” (Chapter 4 in his collection of essays Report on Planet Three, 1972), this event “should have brought a delegation of wise men to Bethlehem sixty years too soon!”

And though Clarke originally called the essay "The Star of Bethlehem", it appears in Report on Planet Three as "The Star of the Magi".

--Thnidu (talk) 03:47, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]