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Discovery of a star sensitive to the spin of Sagittarius A* PRIMARY_TEXT

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The best-fit orbit is remarkable ... with a semi-major axis of a = 83 mas (33% smaller than that of S2) and an orbital period of 8.7 years ... At pericentre,...	not found — this server looked at the page and did not find the passage
The eccentricity of e = 0.9832 and 0.9821 ... leading to a pericentre distance rp of only 136 RS and 142 RS, respectively, around 10 times smaller than that ...	not found — this server looked at the page and did not find the passage
Overall, we have 19 astrometric positions of S301 that outline an ellipse on the sky and yield a consistent orbit.	verbatim — the passage is on the page, character for character