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The Nature paper reports S301’s 8.7-year orbit and approximately 25,000-kilometre-per-second peak speed. MEASUREMENT

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Here, we report the discovery of a faint main-sequence star (mK = 19.3), S301, on an 8.7-year orbit and with small enough a pericentre distance, such that the peak velocity of the star reaches 25,000 km s−1.